Additional Screwworm Cases Confirmed in U.S.

Animal health officials have announced several new confirmed New World Screwworm cases on U.S. soil. Bernt Nelson, an economist with the American Farm Bureau Federation, said the cases are all contained to border states at this time.

"Now, this involved the second case, just shy of six miles away from the first detection. It was discovered in a one-month-old calf," Nelson said. "Looking a little bit further out into some of those other detections, we had a third, fourth, and fifth detection that occurred in LaSalle County and Lea County, New Mexico, and lastly, Gillespie County, Texas."

Nelson said the first confirmed cases in the U.S. did trigger restrictions from U.S. trading partners, though actions remains limited for now.