A threat to American livestock – the new global worm fly (NWS), which has been considered eliminated from the country since 1966 – has been subjected to a possible risk after the outbreak of the disease in Mexico.
The news led to the closure of livestock, horses and bicon's imports along the southern border, where US Minister of Agriculture (USDA) announced Brock Rollins at the X Publishing on Sunday.
“Due to the threat of the new world worm, I announced the suspension of live imports of livestock, horses and bison through the southern border ports to enter instantly,” she wrote in The Post.
“The last time this destroyed scourge invaded America, it took 30 years to restore our livestock industry. This could not happen again.”
What is the new world worm?
NWS is a settlement fly in Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic and some South American countries, according to the inspection service on animal health and planting in the US Department of Agriculture (Aphis).
While the flies themselves are in forests and other wooded areas, they will search for hosts such as livestock or horses in pastures and fields, according to the source above.
A female egg fly lays a wound or a hole for a warm blood animal.
Then the eggs hatch in the larvae (larvae) that dig into the body, causing potentially deadly damage.
The spiral worms are named for their Maggots behavior, as they are holed up in the body as to how the screw is driving into the wood.
“Maggots causes extensive damage by tearing the hosts of the hosts with sharp mouth hooks,” according to Aphis.
This can expand the wound and attract more flies to lay eggs.
In rare cases, larvae can feed on people and centers of control and prevention control.
These injuries can be very painful and can cause serious and perhaps fatal damage to their hosts by causing cracking disease, and parasitic infection of fly larvae in human tissue.
Risk and prevention factors
Nail worms are often found in South America and the Caribbean.
“People who travel to these areas, spend time between livestock and outdoor sleep, and are more open to NWS,” says the Disease Control Center.
The above source stated that people with immunodeficiency, very young or very old, or who suffer from malnutrition are more at risk of developing.
Those who underwent a modern surgery are also at a higher risk, “because flies will lay eggs on open sores,” according to the Center for Disease Control.
Possible effect
If another outbreak occurred in the United States, “pets, livestock, wildlife, and even humans may suffer and die of blaming disease,” the US Department of Agriculture warned.
The US Department of Agriculture estimates that the livestock producers in the southwest of the United States lost between 50 million dollars and 100 million dollars annually due to NWS in the fifties and sixties until it was successfully eliminated.
“It is assumed that these higher losses in the southwest were due to the high number of livestock, the largest geographical area and/or greater potential for NWS to winter,” the report stated.
While the US Department of Agriculture NWS in 1966, there was outbreaks in Florida in 2016.
It was only affected by the endangered deer population and eliminated by March 2017, for all Aphis.
Greg Winner contributed to the reports.
