State, feds prepare to fight new screwworm invasion

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins and Gov. Greg Abbott presided last week over the opening of new facility in Edinburg to produce sterile flies in order to combat a potential invasion of New World screwworms from Mexico that could threaten the nation’s leader in cattle production, The Tribune reported.Cases of the screwworm, which lays eggs in open wounds on cattle, have been d...

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