{"id":10957,"date":"2025-12-03T15:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10957"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:30:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T21:30:18","slug":"texas-agriculture-commissioner-sid-miller-responds-to-new-world-screwworm-detection-in-northern-mexico-12-3-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/12\/03\/texas-agriculture-commissioner-sid-miller-responds-to-new-world-screwworm-detection-in-northern-mexico-12-3-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller Responds to New World Screwworm Detection in Northern Mexico (12\/3\/2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/texasagriculture.gov\/News-Events\/Article\/10654\/Texas-Agriculture-Commissioner-Sid-Miller-Responds-to-New-World-Screwworm-Detec\">Texas Dept of Ag<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today issued the following statement after being notified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of a new detection of the New World screwworm (NWS) in Montemorelos, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico, approximately 120 miles south of the Texas border. USDA\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed the case in a 22-month-old bovine transported from Veracruz to a feedlot in Nuevo Le\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe New World screwworm is one of the most devastating livestock pests ever encountered in North America,\u201d Commissioner Miller said. \u201cWe have beaten it before with resolve and science, and we\u2019ll do it again, but Texas must stay vigilant.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This detection marks the northernmost active case currently found in Mexico. It is also the second detection at the same Nuevo Le\u00f3n feedlot since October. No additional cases were linked to the October detection, and both events appear tied to livestock movements from southern Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commissioner Miller emphasized that Texas remains free from detection, but that state officials and agriculture leaders cannot be complacent.<\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"IjhjPbKHWJh  pQ SC  b yOQDG Xb\"><!-- IjhjPbKHWJh  pQ SC  b yOQDG Xb --><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Texas Dept of Ag AUSTIN \u2014 Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller today issued the following statement after being notified by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) of a new detection of the New World screwworm (NWS) in Montemorelos, Nuevo Le\u00f3n, Mexico, approximately 120 miles south of the Texas border. USDA\u2019s Animal and Plant Health Inspection [&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-10957","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\/10957","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=10957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10958,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10957\/revisions\/10958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}