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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins closed the border to Mexican cattle for a second time after new reports of screwworm infestations.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Thursday criticized a decision by the United States to suspend livestock imports again ...
The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...
The flesh-eating livestock pest New World screwworm has advanced closer to the U.S. border with Mexico, the U.S. Department ...
America has stopped taking animals from northern Mexico. This is because of the New World Screwworm fly. This fly is harmful ...
The screwworm, which eats its host from the inside out and is capable of killing a full-grown steer in just 10 days, prompted the U.S. to halt imports of cattle from Mexico, aggravating a domestic ...
Shortly after Mexico reported a case of an infected cow, the United States Department of Agriculture halted all livestock imports from the US-Mexico border and is warning states along it to ...
The latest culprit in rising beef prices? A parasitic fly that loves to munch on cattle. New World screwworm–a flesh-eating pest found in cattle–was detected this week in Mexico, 370 miles from the U.
Prices will go up with the halt on Mexican cattle imports, but the border closure won't help eradicate the parasite.
MEXICO CITY/CHICAGO (Reuters) -U.S. cattle futures soared to record highs on Monday after Washington suspended cattle imports from Mexico over a flesh-eating parasite, which Mexican President ...
The U.S. will suspend the imports of live cattle from Mexico for 15 days to review the joint strategy in the fight against the screwworm, according to Mexico’s Agriculture Secretary Julio Berdegué.