{"id":480086,"date":"2026-10-29T06:02:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480086\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T06:02:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T06:02:13","slug":"new-world-screwworm-confirmed-in-el-paso-county-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/480086\/","title":{"rendered":"New World screwworm confirmed in El Paso County case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">EL PASO COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; A case of The New World screwworm has been positively identified in El Paso County<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">According to a statement by State Representative Mary E. Gonz\u00e1lez the office has been in communication with the appropriate state agencies and will continue monitoring the situation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The community will continue to be updated as time progresses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The New World screwworm affects animals beyond livestock and residents are asked to check on their pets and monitor them closely.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-2\">It is important that members of our community stay vigilant and go to their veterinarians if they believe their animal may have been impacted<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information on signs and where to report, the statement directed residents to <a href=\"https:\/\/tdem.texas.gov\/disasters\/new-world-screwworm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/tdem.texas.gov\/disasters\/new-world-screwworm\" target=\"_blank\">tdem.texas.gov\/disasters\/new-world-screwworm<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KOSA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO COUNTY, Texas (KOSA) &#8211; A case of The New World screwworm has been positively identified in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,1060,140,139,5877,161922,161921,161923],"class_list":["post-480086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-county","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news","tag-new-world-screwworm","tag-pets-and-screwworm","tag-screwworm-case-texas","tag-veterinarian-screwworm-reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480086","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=480086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}