New World meat worm found 31 miles from the US border

Heather Schlitz of Reuters reported that “a devastating parasitic fly that eats warm-blooded animals alive and could cause millions of dollars in economic damage to the U.S. economy was found in a young sheep in Mexico, less than 30 miles from the U.S. border, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported Friday.” »

“The detection increases the risk for the U.S. beef industry and livestock producers, who have feared for more than a year that the pest could enter the United States and infect livestock after spreading to northern Mexico,” Schlitz reported. “This latest detection of the fly, New World Screwworm, occurred in a six-month-old sheep in Mexico’s Coahuila state, according to USDA data. It was the closest parasite to the United States during the most recent outbreak, despite efforts by the USDA and Mexico to contain the pest.”

New World Butcher Worm. Courtesy of USDA.

Meatingplace’s Peter Voskamp reported that “as of May 25, the USDA is reporting nearly 2,000 active cases of NWS in Mexico, including dozens within 100 miles of the Texas border. Officials in both countries are currently deploying more than 100,000 sterile male flies per week in active NWS; that number is expected to reach 500,000 sterile flies in the near future.”

USDA Opens Lab to Help Fight Butcherworm and Other Pests

Voskamp reported that “USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) announced last week the opening of the Knipling-Bushland Livestock Insect Research Laboratory to ‘provide the U.S. cattle industry with innovative tools and advanced technologies to manage and eliminate invasive flies and ticks that threaten the U.S. cattle industry.’

“The new 52,000 square foot state-of-the-art facility in Kerrville, Texas, will serve to ‘improve the health, sustainability and profitability of U.S. livestock production and protect the U.S. food supply from devastating arthropod pests, including biting flies, ticks and the New World screwworm,’ while continuing to eradicate ‘ticks and blood-sucking flies that can harm, infect and kill the livestock,’” Voskamp reported.

“The lab’s debut comes as authorities in the United States and Mexico battle the resurgence of New World beefworm (NWS), a fly-borne scourge that can wreak havoc on beef cattle herds, which had been eliminated from much of North America in the 1970s,” Voskamp reported.

Southern states still expect screwworm to reach the United States

Stateline’s Kevin Hardy reported that “Southern states are bracing for a potential invasion of the New World screwworm that could disrupt livestock markets and drive up already high meat prices.”

“With several cases reported within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border, the federal government has already banned the importation of live cattle from Mexico, worsening the domestic beef shortage,” Hardy reported. “State and federal officials have also created new monitoring, testing and quarantine protocols, even as the federal government has implemented measures to sterilize millions of flies, including a new $750 million facility that will produce sterile flies.”

“’I think at this point it’s going to be very difficult to keep him from entering the United States,’ said Dr. Samantha Holeck, state veterinarian with the New Mexico Livestock Council, which regulates the livestock industry,” Hardy reported. …David Anderson, professor and extension specialist in livestock and food marketing at Texas A&M University “said beef producers appear well prepared to combat an invasion of domestic butcher worms, which many consider inevitable. “I think we will re-eradicate it. I think it just depends on how long it takes us to do it,” he said.

“In the event of an outbreak, the USDA has created monitoring, reporting and quarantine protocols for animals. But because the disease does not create food safety concerns, the agency will not stop any movement of animal products, including meat,” Hardy reported. “But the infestation could spill over to other animal products, livestock and even pets, officials warn.”

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