USDA’s APHIS restricts live cattle imports from Mexico following confirmation of screwworm

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has temporarily suspended imports of live animals originating from or traveling through Mexico following the confirmation of New World screwworm in cattle. NWS are fly larvae that infest living tissue of warm-blooded animals, causing infection. This applies to live cattle and bison.  So far New World screwworm has […]

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