{"id":10003,"date":"2025-07-30T16:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10003"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T21:46:10","slug":"avian-flu-wiped-out-poultry-now-the-screwworm-is-coming-for-beef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/07\/30\/avian-flu-wiped-out-poultry-now-the-screwworm-is-coming-for-beef\/","title":{"rendered":"Avian Flu Wiped Out Poultry. Now the Screwworm Is Coming for Beef."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/28\/us\/politics\/screwworm-beef-prices.html\">NYT<\/a> The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it\u2019s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border. First came bird flu, which led to the culling of large swaths of the nation\u2019s poultry flocks and the soaring egg prices that helped undermine President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s re-election. Now, ranchers in Texas and officials at the Agriculture Department are raising the next alarm: the New World screwworm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Texas livestock producers and ranchers fear the United States is ill-equipped to handle a potential outbreak of screwworm, whose incursion into the country appears increasingly likely. With beef prices already soaring, the screwworm, whose Latin name roughly translates to \u201cman-eater,\u201d is a real threat, to both cows and the cost of living for America\u2019s meat lovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf we wait, we lose,\u201d Stephen Diebel, vice president of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, told state lawmakers during a hearing in Austin earlier this month as he pleaded for intervention.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"  j czJMlNEQ w\"><!--   j czJMlNEQ w --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT The parasitic fly that attacks warm-blooded animals was eliminated from the United States in the 1960s, but it\u2019s creeping toward the Texas-Mexico border. First came bird flu, which led to the culling of large swaths of the nation\u2019s poultry flocks and the soaring egg prices that helped undermine President Joseph R. Biden Jr.\u2019s re-election. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-infectious-diseases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10003"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10004,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10003\/revisions\/10004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}