Overview

• U.S. health authorities confirmed the first human case on Aug. 24 in a patient infected after travel to El Salvador and said the overall public risk remains very low.
• Reuters reported a possible additional case in a Maryland resident returning from Guatemala, which U.S. officials have not addressed.
• Mexico’s epidemiological system reports 41 confirmed human cases through Aug. 22, with new infections in Yucatán and Tabasco joining earlier cases in Chiapas and Campeche.
• The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced plans for a sterile-fly production facility in Texas as a preventive measure.
• U.S. curbs on live cattle imports from neighboring countries have produced losses that Mexico’s National Agricultural Council estimates above $1.3 billion, and U.S. projections put a Texas outbreak’s potential cost near $1.8 billion.