{"id":346319,"date":"2026-06-23T00:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346319\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T00:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T00:10:08","slug":"usda-confirms-texas-goat-found-infected-with-new-world-screwworm-animal-contained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/346319\/","title":{"rendered":"USDA confirms Texas goat found infected with New World Screwworm, animal contained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DRYDEN, Texas &#8211; Federal agriculture officials have confirmed a new case of New World screwworm in a goat in Terrell County, Texas, marking another detection as state and federal crews ramp up surveillance and containment.<\/p>\n<p>In an update posted to X, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said the case was found in a castration site wound. The agency emphasized that \u201cNWS only infests open wounds \u2014 it does not affect healthy skin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USDA said the Terrell County detection is \u201capproximately 180 miles west of the initial Texas detection and 74 miles west of the nearest previously confirmed case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED | <a href=\"https:\/\/foxsanantonio.com\/newsletter-daily\/new-world-screwworm-cases-in-texas-climb-to-15-after-new-positive-tests-in-lamb-calves\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">New World Screwworm cases in Texas climb to 15 after new positive tests in lamb, calves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The agency also provided broader context on the outbreak, saying Mexico has reported \u201cover 29,000 cases since November 2024\u201d and \u201ccurrently has around 1,800 active cases.\u201d USDA said \u201cthe U.S. has 16 cases.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>USDA said it and state animal health officials are \u201cactively responding with enhanced surveillance and established containment protocols,\u201d adding that \u201csterile flies will be dispersed imminently as part of our aggressive eradication efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DRYDEN, Texas &#8211; Federal agriculture officials have confirmed a new case of New World screwworm in a goat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-346319","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\/346319","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=346319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}