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The dogs training to sniff out flesh-eating screwworm in Mexico
STORY: Hummer, a young mixed-breed dog, walks around a variety of samples until he finds what he’s searching for – the scent of screwworm.The canine is part of a select group chosen for a three-month intensive training program from a special unit of Mexico's health safety agency Senasica.
The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...
The map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...
A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.
Understanding the New World screwworm blowfly and its behavior underscores why it is so dangerous to the livestock industry.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the border closure after Mexico reported a case of a flesh-eating parasite ...
The USDA previously reopened certain ports, such as Douglas, Arizona, after Mexico's efforts to control the screwworm pest.
Another pause in US imports of Mexican cattle over screwworm, job losses and tomato tariffs were topics of Sheinbaum's ...
Mexico's government said on Monday that it has started to build a $51 million facility in the country's south as part of an ...
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