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Efforts Intensify to Combat New World Screwworm Outbreak
Original: Combating New World Screwworm Outbreak
Reports highlight ongoing efforts to combat an outbreak of New World screwworm, a parasitic fly whose larvae infest the wounds of warm-blooded animals, primarily affecting livestock. The pest, largely eradicated from North and Central America decades ago, has been spreading northward from Central America and southern Mexico, prompting animal health authorities to launch containment and surveillance programmes to protect cattle industries.
Why now: The screwworm's northward spread threatens livestock industries and has triggered renewed government and agricultural responses.
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- Combating New World Screwworm Outbreak · The Prairie News
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