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USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins says USDA has invested $1.3 billion and expanded its screwworm workforce.
WHY THIS MATTERS · This matters because a flesh-eating parasite is spreading north through Mexico toward Texas, and USDA's halt on live-cattle imports is already tightening North American beef supply and pushing prices up for ranchers and consumers.
Part of the monitored dynamic New World Screwworm · VUCA INDEX 43/100
EVIDENCE CHAIN · 1
INGESTED ARTICLETIER 2JUL 4
thepoultrysite.com — Weekly protein report: Heat stress raises concerns for poultry flocks
"Rollins says USDA has invested $1.3 billion, expanded its screwworm workfo"
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Extracted by pipeline v0.5 (claude-opus-4-8) from thepoultrysite.com · approved by christopher@vucanews.com JUL 5.
Extracted JUL 5; approved JUL 5 at 0.50.
MORE FROM THIS DYNAMIC
- Texas DSHS confirmed no human cases of New World screwworm in Texas.
- USDA awarded the University of Arizona a $3.74 million Grand Challenge grant to strengthen state preparedness for New World screwworm.
- University of Arizona project will validate a PCR-based diagnostic tool to expand New World screwworm testing capacity beyond morphological identification.
- Project includes economic-impact assessment and benefit-cost analysis of response strategies, including a proposed Arizona-based sterile fly distribution facility.
- By end of June 2026, USDA tallied 20 active and seven inactive NWS cases, all but one in south Texas.
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