Eradication of screwworm becomes undone during Trump regime of sycophantic cabinet secretaries like Brooke Rollins @USDA

 

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Angie Stump Denton provide an excellent history of screwworn in this article:

NWS plagued American ranchers for at least a century before scientists gave it a name. By the 1930s, USDA researchers Cushing and Patton had confirmed it as a species distinct from the common blowfly — a prerequisite for any targeted control effort. Annual losses to the U.S. livestock industry were running $5 million to $10 million, and a federally funded Screwworm Educational Program was launched in 1935 to help producers manage wounds and isolate infested animals. 

Reviewing history and talking to South Texas ranchers, for livestock producers in the southern U.S. the “screwworm season” wasn’t just a date on the calendar — it was a grueling daily battle. Before eradication, the daily ranch routine was dictated by the pest that could kill a healthy calf in less than a week.

 

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