{"id":345223,"date":"2026-06-22T02:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345223\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T02:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T02:34:08","slug":"new-world-screwworm-cases-rise-to-15-in-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/345223\/","title":{"rendered":"New World Screwworm cases rise to 15 in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas  \u2014 According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/animals\/animal-health\/livestock-and-poultry-disease\/current-status\/us-confirmed-cases-new-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">U.S. Department of Agriculture<\/a>, the number of New World Screwworm cases has risen to 15 as of Sunday evening. <\/p>\n<p>The most recent cases were confirmed as one in Crockett County, Texas on Saturday and two in Edwards County, Texas on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>New World Screwworm is a parasitic fly whose larvae burrow into the living flesh of warm-blooded animals, causing severe tissue damage and potential death. <\/p>\n<p>The USDA has released more than 130 million sterile male flies in Texas since January in an effort to break the pest&#8217;s reproductive cycle.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbsaustin.com\/news\/local\/texas-shelters-warn-bans-and-vet-only-meds-could-force-euthanasia-in-screwworm-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas shelters warn bans and vet-only meds could force euthanasia in screwworm fight<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Officials urge livestock and pet owners to watch animals for symptoms including draining wounds, maggots, signs of discomfort, and lesions near openings in the body. <\/p>\n<p>Officials encourage suspected cases to be reported immediately to a veterinarian or the USDA. The U.S. food supply is not at risk.<\/p>\n<p>More information is available at screwworm.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the number of New World Screwworm cases has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345224,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-345223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345223","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=345223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}