Overview

• Mexico’s agriculture agency confirmed New World screwworm in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, less than 70 miles from Texas and near the Monterrey–Laredo corridor.
• The infected animal was an 8-month-old cow recently moved from southern Mexico into a certified feedlot in Nuevo León.
• U.S. ports remain closed to imports of cattle, bison and horses from Mexico as part of the federal response plan.
• USDA reports no screwworm flies detected to date in thousands of surveillance traps across Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.
• The United States is constructing an $8.5 million sterile-fly dispersal facility in Edinburg and planning a larger production site in South Texas.