US EditionThe US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite
TEXAS, UNITED STATES, JUN 19 – The USDA will produce up to 300 million sterile flies weekly at the new Texas facility to prevent screwworms from threatening the $15 billion cattle industry, officials said.
- The U.S. government plans to open a fly factory in Texas by the end of the year to breed sterile New World screwworm flies to protect cattle from a flesh-eating parasite.
- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins stated that these flies will mate with females to prevent them from laying eggs in cattle wounds.
- Texas officials expressed gratitude for the U.S. plans to combat the screwworm threat, which has led to live cattle imports from Mexico being suspended.
- Mexican Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué called Rollins’ plan a 'positive step' for U.S.-Mexico cooperation against the threat.
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US plans to open a fly factory in Texas to fight a flesh-eating parasite
The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle.
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