{"id":324272,"date":"2026-06-05T15:58:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324272\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T15:58:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T15:58:13","slug":"gov-abbott-to-give-update-on-new-world-screwworm-case-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/324272\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Abbott to give update on New World screwworm case in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials will provide an update Friday morning on the New World screwworm case in Texas.<\/a><\/p>\n

Abbott will be joined by Texas Animal Health Commission Executive Director Dr. Lewis R. \u201cBud\u201d Dinges; Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Executive Director David Yoskowitz; and Rear Adm. Michael Schmoyer, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture\u2019s New World Screwworm Directorate, along with other elected officials and state responders.<\/p>\n

The New World screwworm is a parasitic fly larva<\/a> that infests the tissue of warm-blooded animals, including cattle, deer, pets and humans. The larvae invade open wounds and feed on living flesh.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) confirmed the first U.S. case in South Texas<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday. The pest poses a threat to the state\u2019s $15 billion cattle industry.<\/p>\n

Mexican authorities reported 11 new cases within 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border at the end of last month. The closest confirmed case was about 25 miles from the border in a 5-year-old goat in Coahuila.<\/p>\n

As of Monday, Mexico had about 1,800 active cases, bringing the total to more than 26,700 since November 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gov. Greg Abbott and other state officials will provide an update Friday morning on the New World screwworm…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115935,392,115934,5877,11484,27,60364,29,28,2603,5699],"class_list":["post-324272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-confirmed-case","tag-greg-abbott","tag-michael-schmoyer","tag-new-world-screwworm","tag-state-officials","tag-texas","tag-texas-animal-health-commission","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-parks-and-wildlife","tag-u-s-department-of-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324272","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=324272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}