{"id":357138,"date":"2026-07-01T11:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357138\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T11:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T11:36:17","slug":"avian-flu-diary-texas-screwworm-detections-n29-spread-to-12-counties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/357138\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Flu Diary: Texas: Screwworm Detections (n=29) Spread to 12 Counties"},"content":{"rendered":"

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#19,229<\/p>\n

Since our last update<\/a> (Saturday), the USDA has added 3 more screwworm detections (in 2 new Texas counties; Pecos & Uvalde), bringing the total to 29.<\/p>\n

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So far, the parasite has been detected in 17 cattle, 7 sheep, 3 goats, and 2 dogs. No detections in wildlife have been reported, but surveillance is quite limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Complicating matters, across the border in Mexico, the screwworm continues to spread north, potentially providing additional reinforcements for the first arrivals to U.S. soil.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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During the month of June, there were 112 screwworm reports within 100 miles of the Texas border.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>
Given the short life cycle of the New World Screwworm(see below) we are likely already well into the second generation in Texas. And each new arrival only exacerbates the problem.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Reportedly, the USDA <\/a>dispersing between 4 and 8 million sterile screwworm flies<\/a> per week into the known infested counties of Texas, but the plan is to expand those\u00a0 numbers 10-fold by 2027.Meaning this fight isn’t going to be won overnight.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u00a0 #19,229 Since our last update (Saturday), the USDA has added 3 more screwworm detections (in 2 new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-357138","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\/357138","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=357138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}