Parasitic Maggots that Eat Flesh, Including Human, Are Headed to US - and Guess Who's Getting Blamed? · American Wire News

On Tuesday afternoon, the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development, Julio Berdegué and his American counterpart, Secretary Brooke Rollins, held a meeting through a video conference in which they agreed to visit, within a few weeks, a delegation of the Department of Agriculture (USDA) to Mexico to review the measures that have been put in place in the country to mitigate the threat of the worm sweeper. In addition, they announced the invest…

Parasitic maggots that eat flesh, including human, are headed to US - and guess who's getting blamed? · American Wire News

A flesh-eating parasite that even eats humans is reportedly headed to the U.S., and of course, leftists are blaming President Donald Trump. The parasite in question is the screwworm, a fly whose maggots “eat[] animals alive: cow, pig, deer, dog, even human,” according to The Atlantic. Cattle farmers in northern #Mexico are ramping up efforts to respond to a damaging pest called New World #screwworm. The screwworm, which can kill cattle or other…

Climate change could be helping livestock-killing pest spread north

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. By Ayurella Horn-Muller, Grist To a throng of goats foraging in a remote expanse of Sanibel Island, Florida, the low whir of a plane flying overhead was perhaps the only warning of what was to come. As it passed, the specially modified plane dropped scores of parasitic New World screwworm flies through an elongated chute onto the herd. Then the plane’s whir…

USDA shares update on New World screwworm efforts in Mexico

USDA investing $21 million to renovate a fruit fly production facility in Metapa that will produce 60-100 million sterile NWS flies per week.

Update on USDA Efforts to Fight New World Screwworm in Mexico - Oklahoma Farm Report

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollin provided an update on the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) ongoing partnership with Mexico to combat the New World Screwworm (NWS). Yesterday, Secretary Rollins held a call with her counterpart in Mexico, Secretary Berdegue, to discuss the ongoing threat of NWS and actions being taken by both countries to contain the threat south of the U.S. border. USDA is working daily with Mexico to make s…

In Aguascalientes nearly a thousand head of cattle are sacrificed per day The sweeper worm has also stuck in the health of people, for ... La entrada Aguascalientes is not saved from the economic impact by the sweeper worm aparece primero en LJA Aguascalientes.