Overview
- Federal and state officials agreed a seven-front special action plan after meetings in Tampico and Veracruz.
- The United States will increase sterile-fly releases in south Tamaulipas and across north and central Veracruz to suppress reproduction.
- Authorities are adding 20 new field brigades, bringing total personnel to 170, along with more traps and mobile inspection modules.
- Road checkpoints and itinerant verification routes backed by the National Guard will tighten livestock movement in San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas, and Veracruz.
- Immediate priorities target deactivating recent cases in Tamaulipas while containing the pest in Veracruz, with producers urged to report cases under a non-punitive approach.