It Devours Worm Sweeper Profits From the Livestock Industry
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James Henderson was a teenager in 1971 when he had to treat his animals against a type of white worm that devoured the cattle from inside out: the New World sweeper worm. “He’s a horrible parasite and eats the meat very quickly,” said Henderson, who operates Bradley 3 ranch near Memphis, in the Texas Panhandle. “From the moment the adult fly lays its eggs until you have an animal that is likely to be slaughtered, it can take as little as 72 hour…
The European livestock sector sees with distance the extent of the sweeping worm in Central America because no cases have been recorded in the Old Continent, while the United States has involved even its army in the fight against the reintroduction of this parasite that can impact the economy. Alarms have been triggered in the United States by the reappearance, several decades later, of the New World sweeper worm in cattle in areas of New Mexico…
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