Overview
- Federal and state leaders formalized a special action plan concentrated on Tamaulipas and the north and center of Veracruz with actions scheduled over the coming weeks.
- The plan tightens livestock-movement controls with reinforced highway checkpoints, permanent National Guard presence, itinerant inspection routes in San Luis Potosí, Tamaulipas and Veracruz, and four mobile modules in Veracruz.
- Field operations expand with 20 new brigades for a total of 170 personnel, more traps, and systematic ranch inspections by veterinary teams even in areas without confirmed cases.
- Mexico and the United States agreed to increase sterile-fly releases in southern Tamaulipas and northern and central Veracruz, supported by SENASICA’s Metapa facility scaling to about 200 million insects per week.
- Active GBG cases declined to 492 as of January 7 from 1,145 in December, while Puebla confirmed nine active cases under sanitary control within a cluster of states holding most of the national total.