Second screwworm case confirmed in Texas as Abbott expands disaster declaration

Screwworm parasites can infect human wounds and eyes; livestock and wildlife face direct threat from flesh-eating infestation.

A parasite eradicated from American soil in the 1960s has returned to Texas, where a second confirmed screwworm case has prompted Governor Abbott to expand a disaster declaration and Canada to ban Texas cattle imports. The screwworm — larvae that burrow into living flesh through open wounds — once required a generation of coordinated biological warfare to defeat, and its reappearance asks whether the tools of that era can hold in a warmer, more interconnected world. What was once a hard-won continental victory now stands as a fragile thing, tested again by the persistence of nature and the por

Second screwworm case confirmed in Texas as Abbott expands disaster declaration

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