Overview

• Yucatán’s Secretaría de Desarrollo Rural reports all 83 confirmed screwworm cases have been successfully treated without resorting to culling or quarantine
• Nine interstate phytosanitary checkpoints have been installed in eastern and southern corridors to inspect livestock movements and bolster biosecurity
• A special Seder brigade is engaging ranchers and veterinarians with training and outreach to promote early detection and prompt treatment
• Governor Américo Villarreal of Tamaulipas convened Veracruz and San Luis Potosí in a regional forum to formalize a containment barrier against the parasite
• The multi-state plan features sterile-fly distribution pilots, strategic entomological monitoring traps and community-based response teams for rapid intervention