Multiple counties in Texas have been quarantined as a potentially deadly infestation that can infect people has crossed the US border and is spreading through the South.
The Texas Animal Health Commission has issued an animal quarantine across parts of La Salle, Uvalde, Webb and Zavala Counties due to the spread of New World Screwworms over the last week.
Four cases among local livestock have been confirmed in Texas, and another case in a dog was announced in New Mexico on Monday.
The New World Screwworm (NWS) are flies that lay hundreds of their larvae in the wounds of animals and people. The parasites hatch
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