{"id":321487,"date":"2026-06-03T21:26:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321487\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T21:26:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T21:26:12","slug":"first-u-s-suspected-case-of-new-world-screwworm-reported-in-south-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/321487\/","title":{"rendered":"First U.S. suspected case of New World screwworm reported in South Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> (Allie Goulding\/The Texas Tribune,  Allie Goulding\/The Texas Tribune)<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/newsletters\/the-yall\/?utm_medium=website&amp;utm_source=in-article-cta&amp;utm_campaign=inline-article-CTA-yall&amp;utm_term=inline-CTA-yall\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to The Y\u2019all<\/a> \u2014 a weekly dispatch about the people, places and policies defining Texas, produced by Texas Tribune journalists living in communities across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">McALLEN \u2014 The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced a suspected case of New World screwworm \u2014 the parasitic fly poised to harm the state\u2019s $15 billion cattle industry \u2014 in South Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The USDA is testing a sample of the potential infestation at the USDA\u2019s National Veterinary Services Laboratories in Ames, lowa, the agency announced on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/usda\/status\/2062245310689345981?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">social media on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The USDA added it had already activated personnel on the ground and were working with local partners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The announcement comes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2026\/06\/02\/texas-screwworm-1-mile-brooke-rollins-don-mclaughlin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">one day after Secretary Brooke Rollins debunked the claims<\/a> of a state lawmaker that the screwworm was less than 1 mile from the U.S.-Mexico border. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">This is a developing story and will be updated. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Reporting in the Rio Grande Valley is supported in part by the Methodist Healthcare Ministries of South Texas, Inc.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">2026 Texas Tribune<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Allie Goulding\/The Texas Tribune, Allie Goulding\/The Texas Tribune) Subscribe to The Y\u2019all \u2014 a weekly dispatch about the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321488,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2389,918,287,1472,1474,27,29,293,28,6473],"class_list":["post-321487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-agriculture","tag-economy","tag-politics","tag-rio-grande-valley","tag-south-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-news","tag-well-a-homepage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}