U.S. and Mexican are breeding sterile New World Screwworm flies to stop a flesh-eating parasite from spreading to Texas

In the southern state of Chiabas, which borders Guatemala, it seems that the spread of the new software worm of the new screw worm has caught in most livestock breeders, despite memories of previous illness in the 1980s and 1990s.

Mexico builds a factory with support for us in Chiabas to produce sterile flies, which has proven effective in stopping the spread, but it will not be ready until next year. Meanwhile, the price of medicines used to treat livestock with spiral worms has increased.

This has led some to return to home remedies such as applying gasoline or lime to open wounds to persuade worms.

In addition to the cost of the drug, the treatment requires accurate monitoring and usually includes multiple cycles. Any open wound, even very small, is an invitation to fly to lay eggs.

The veterinarian Alfredo Chavez Chiabas left to study in 1989, so he says that he missed the vision of the effects of this fascism, but now he saw that the issues were doubled in his corner of the state during the past month.

He has heard about dozens of cases in the region now and tensted itself. They are not just cows – sheep, pigs, cats and dogs are also targets.

Armed with a pair of blue compresses and aerosol spray that helps to draw maggots, Chavez moves from animal to another. It places richness in plastic tubes as the eyes, which he offers to agricultural authorities.

But in addition to providing pipelines and encouraging livestock breeders to report cases, he said that the government has not provided much assistance.

He said on Wednesday: “We faced it alone.”

The United States gradually began to reopen the border to livestock imports this month after a previous comment in May, when the Trump administration said it would close it again after finding an infected animal in the state of Ferkerruz on the Gulf coast. While the prevailing in Central America, anxiety is that the fly is moving north.

American officials are concerned that if the fly reaches Texas, wealth may cause significant economic losses, which happened decades ago.

Acting Ranch Edi Valencia Santos said that Mexican government officials have come to his community to speak with people with livestock, but so far without resources. He had five infected animals on the farm.

Although livestock in this region goes to local consumption instead of the United States, the presence of the spiral worm in Mexico has frozen livestock exports to the United States worldwide.

Valencia said that he remembers the small planes that distribute sterile flies during these previous fascism, so it is optimistic that they will eventually help, but at the present time, the costs accumulate on the farm.

“It is a big problem with Chapas,” he said.