By Ryan Hanrahan
Pork Business’s Jennifer Shike reported that “Mexico’s National Service of Agro-Alimentary Health, Safety, and Quality (SENASICA) confirmed a new case of New World screwworm (NWS) in Sabinas Hidalgo, located in the state of Nuevo León, less than 70 miles from the U.S.-Mexico border on Sept. 21.”
“USDA reports this is now the northernmost detection of NWS during this outbreak, and the one most threatening to the American cattle and livestock industry,” Shike reported. “Sabinas Hidalgo is located near one of the most heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfares in the world, the major highway from Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, to Laredo, Texas.”
“‘Protecting the United States from NWS is non-negotiable and a top priority of the Trump Administration,’ U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins said in a release,” according to Shike’s reporting. ‘This is a national security priority. We have given Mexico every opportunity and every resource necessary to counter NWS since announcing the NWS Bold Plan in June 2025.'”
“The previous northernmost detection was reported approximately 370 miles farther south on July 9 in Veracruz, USDA reports,” according to Shike. “SENASICA preliminary reports indicate the affected animal — an 8-month-old cow — had recently been moved to a certified feedlot in Nuevo León from a region in southern Mexico with known active NWS cases. USDA says this potential link to animal movement underscores the ‘non-negotiable need for Mexico to fully implement and comply with the U.S.–Mexico Joint Action Plan for NWS in Mexico.'”
Source : illinois.edu