Flood-battered Texas braces for another blow: a fast-moving, flesh-eating parasite from Mexico

The president of Mexico was embarrassed on Thursday, indicating that the United States exaggerates the threat of manufacture of cow meat from the parasite, the new world fly. The female puts that the female puts eggs in wounds on animals with warm blood, and hatching unusual larvae between flies to feed on live meat and fluids instead of dead substances.

American officials are concerned that if the fly reaches Texas, the wealth it takes in the body may cause significant economic losses, which happened decades ago. The United States has largely led pests in the 1970s by raising and issuing sterile male flies to multiply with wild females, and the fly in Panama was contained for years until it was discovered in southern Mexico at the end of last year.

The United States closed its southern borders in May to live livestock imports, horses and biceon, but announced on June 30 that it would allow three ports to enter this month and two others by September 15. However, since then, the fly injury has been reported 185 miles (298 km) northeast of Mexico, about 160 miles (258 km). It was about 370 miles (595 km) from the Texas border.

“The United States has promised to be alert,” US Agriculture Minister Brock Rollins said in a statement on Wednesday announced the closure of the border. “Thanks to the aggressive monitoring of the US Department of Agriculture in the United States and Mexico, we were able to take fast and decisive measures to respond to the spread of this deadly scourge.”

In Mexico, President Claudia Shinbom said that the authorities there follow all the known protocols to deal with the northern issue. The Mexican authorities said the country has 392 infected animals, a decrease of 19 % since June 24.

“From our point of view, they made a completely exaggerated decision to close the border again.” “All that should be done scientifically is done.”

Three weeks ago, Rollins announced plans to combat the parasite, which includes spending nearly $ 30 million on new sites for male flies raising and separating them. Once launched in the wild, these males were mating with the females, causing eggs that did not hatch until the population of the fly dies.

The US Department of Agriculture hopes that a new fly factory will work in southern Mexico by July 2026 to supplement flying breeding in a complex in Panama. The agency also plans to open a site in South Texas to hold sterile flies imported from Panama, so that it can be launched along the border if necessary.

Also on Thursday, American actors, Tony Gonzalez, from Texas, and Katk your attachment, from Florida, urged the Trump administration to quickly agree to use anti -parasite treatments to treat new global worm fly in livestock. They said the requirements for putting signs are currently preventing them.