{"id":11560,"date":"2026-02-25T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11560"},"modified":"2026-03-04T13:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T19:34:03","slug":"unseasonal-new-world-screwworm-migration-spurs-proactive-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/02\/25\/unseasonal-new-world-screwworm-migration-spurs-proactive-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Unseasonal New World screwworm migration spurs proactive measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/cattle-news\/unseasonal-new-world-screwworm-migration-spurs-proactive-measures\">Farm Progress<\/a> A warmer-than-normal winter has enabled New World screwworm to overwinter in Mexico. As it inches closer to Texas, the U.S. is committed to preventing the pest from destroying its herd and wildlife. High cattle prices may be a dream come true for Texas cattleman Stephen Diebel, but the resurgence of the New World screwworm and its recent unseasonal migration from Mexico make for sleepless nights for the fifth-generation rancher.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pest crippled the livestock industry of his grandfather\u2019s era, and thoughts of history repeating itself feel a bit like a nightmare \u2014 one he\u2019s determined to help prevent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re seeing a northern progression [of NWS] in the months we didn\u2019t expect,\u201d Diebel said, who is also the first vice president of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tscra.org\/what-we-do\/\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"Texas &amp; Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, opens in a new window\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Texas &amp; Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association<\/a>\u00a0(TSCRA). \u201cIt gives us pause as to what this spring may look like.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.farmprogress.com\/cattle-news\/unseasonal-new-world-screwworm-migration-spurs-proactive-measures\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farm Progress A warmer-than-normal winter has enabled New World screwworm to overwinter in Mexico. As it inches closer to Texas, the U.S. is committed to preventing the pest from destroying its herd and wildlife. High cattle prices may be a dream come true for Texas cattleman Stephen Diebel, but the resurgence of the New World [&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-11560","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\/11560","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=11560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11561,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11560\/revisions\/11561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}