Analyze Mexico to Produce New Fly Against Sweeper
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The federal government is analyzing to produce in the Chiapas plant a new copy of sterile fly to combat the cattle sweeper worm, which doubles the effectiveness of the insect used four decades ago to eradicate the plague in Mexico. President Claudia Sheinbaum reported that the Federal Commission for the Protection against Health Risks (Cofepris) reviews the feasibility of manufacturing this new variety, developed in the United States, as part of…
Puebla, Pue., The strategy for fighting the worm sweeper is late and insufficient. The alarm that was generated in November 2024, with the first case in a cattle in the state of Chiapas, which caused the closure of the border with the United States to Mexican cattle, and months later reached human contagions, had a response that arrived just two weeks ago, when it tore off the new biofactory that will produce 100 million sterile flies weekly by …
Once it was eradicated and we will do it again, said President Claudia Sheinbaum, in relation to the plague of the worm sweeper and to the work with sterile flies, which in coordination with the United States, is carrying out its administration....
President Claudia Sheinbaum stated that Mexico and the United States have already experienced the plague of the worm sweeper and that methods of no longer crossing cattle but meat to the North American market are being sought. Questioned in the morning, Sheinbaum pointed out that eradication of the plague has already been achieved in the past, through the production of a sterile fly, a practice that is about 40 years old and Cofepris analyzes a …
Mexico City.- America needs to produce and release about six hundred million sterile flies each week to contain the advance of the cattle sweeper worm between Panama and the United States, six times as much as it currently generates. The challenge affects Latin America, a region that produces about 28% of the beef consumed in the world and between 7% and 10% of milk, so the spread of the plague can have consequences for food security beyond the …
America needs to produce and release about six hundred million sterile flies each week to contain the advance of the cattle sweeper worm between Panama and the United States, six times as much as it currently generates. The challenge affects Latin America, a region that produces about 28% of the cattle consumed in the world and between 7% and 10% of the milk, so the spread of the plague can have consequences for food security beyond the affected…
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