Flesh-Eating Cattle Screwworm Spreads Beyond Texas As USDA Accelerates Eradication Push
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Source: Zero Hedge
Published: 2026-06-10 01:20 UTC+10:00
Section: General
Factuality Score: 100
Opinion Category: Neutral
Topics: Food & Agriculture, World News
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture confirmed three more New World screwworm (NWS) cases, bringing total detections to five and heightening concerns that the flesh-eating pest, once eradicated in the 1960s, could threaten the nation's already strained cattle industry.
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