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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 map shows the ports of entry affected by the U.S. Agriculture Department’s announcement and the approximate locations of ...
The U.S. has again ceased livestock imports from Mexico related to the presence of the parasitic New World screwworm fly ...
A detection of the New World Screwworm closer to the United States will keep the ports closed to livestock from Mexico.
The reemergence of the New World screwworm, which poses significant health risks for livestock, has prompted the Department ...
In Mexico, dogs like Hummer are crucial in detecting screwworm, a pest threatening livestock and trade. Trained at a ...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the border closure after Mexico reported a case of a flesh-eating parasite ...
Understanding the New World screwworm blowfly and its behavior underscores why it is so dangerous to the livestock industry.
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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Mexico’s Claudia Sheinbaum blasts US screwworm response as ‘exaggerated’The US has closed its ports of entry to Mexican cattle for fear of the parasitic, flesh-eating worm spreading north.
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