{"id":324066,"date":"2026-06-05T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324066\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:03:08","slug":"a-confirmed-new-world-screwworm-case-in-texas-triggers-movement-restrictions-and-heightened-livestock-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324066\/","title":{"rendered":"A confirmed New World screwworm case in Texas triggers movement restrictions and heightened livestock monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"page_title\"> News <\/p>\n<p class=\"post_title\"> A confirmed New World screwworm case in Texas triggers movement restrictions and heightened livestock monitoring <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img width=\"820\" height=\"531\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/NWS-USDA-APHIS.jpg\" class=\"img-responsive wp-post-image\" alt=\"Photo courtesy of the USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/>Photo courtesy of the USDA&#8217;s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. \t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now that New World screwworm has been confirmed in the United States, what happens next?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Bud Dinges, the state veterinarian for\u00a0Texas and executive director of the\u00a0Texas Animal Health Commission,\u00a0says a\u00a012-mile radius\u00a0infested zone has been\u00a0established\u00a0around the operation where the lone case of New World screwworm was detected\u00a0in a three-week-old calf.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cThat infested zone, we are not allowing animal movements up to\u00a036 hours\u00a0initially,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u201cWe want to get in there and make sure that animals are safe to move. Animals can move out of the infested zone. They just need to be inspected, treated.\u201d\u00a0 He says the process was modeled after the state\u2019s Cattle Fever Tick eradication efforts.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dinges says the infected calf has been treated. \u201cThey looked at the cattle on the premises, and didn\u2019t find any other infested animals,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom our epidemiology investigation, there is no evidence of a recent movement of animals onto or off of the premises.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Lucas Hinojosa,\u00a0a veterinarian in\u00a0Edinburg,\u00a0Texas,\u00a0says the most important thing for producers to do right now is\u00a0monitor\u00a0their livestock and pets.\u00a0\u201cChecking any wounds that they might have for potential sites for the screwworm\u00a0fly\u00a0to land and then lay an egg and then you get the screwworm process started,\u201d he says. \u201cAnother common area is the newborn calves of the umbilical area.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And he says\u00a0there are other indicators outside of what producers might see. \u201cThere\u2019s also a very horrible odor that comes from these wounds,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cI remember as a kid treating calves on the ranch, the smell that comes out of these wounds is just horrific, and\u00a0you\u2019ll\u00a0never forget it. Once you smell it, you know\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0around.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He\u00a0tells\u00a0Brownfield sterile flies are key to controlling and eradicating New World\u00a0screwworm.\u00a0 But currently sterile flies are only being produced at the COPEG facility in Panama.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cYou need over a million flies to cover a large area,\u201d he says.\u00a0\u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re trying to get these flies to areas where we know the screwworm is that so that they can mate with a female and sterilize these eggs.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AUDIO: Dr. Lucas Hinojosa, Edinburg, Texas<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second facility,\u00a0located\u00a0in\u00a0Metapa, Mexico is set to come online this summer and a third facility,\u00a0at Moore\u00a0Air Field\u00a0in Texas is expected to start producing flies in late 2027.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"News A confirmed New World screwworm case in Texas triggers movement restrictions and heightened livestock monitoring Photo courtesy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-324066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324066","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=324066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}