These new cases remove the possibility that the United States will soon resume importing Mexican cattle. The North American country paused the mobilization of animals since November 2024, when the first cases of screwworm were detected in Mexico.
Months later, he lifted the veto for a few days and imposed it again in May 2025, considering that the plague was still active.
After confirming the case, the government of the State of Mexico said in a statement that it will maintain a health alert in a preventive phase and promised to reinforce surveillance with additional personnel and resources in the southern region of the entity.
He will also hold a meeting in the coming days with the municipal presidents, livestock organizations from the south of the State of Mexico and federal authorities to strengthen the prevention, care and dissemination strategy against the screwworm.
Antonio Huerta Alba, Health Director of the local Rural Secretariat, urged ranchers to immediately report any suspicion of screwworm and recommended that they check the cattle daily, detect wounds in a timely manner and wash, clean and disinfect any injury. In addition to promoting community control programs.
“If preventive measures are not applied, the infestation cycle can continue and affect the entire region,” he noted in the bulletin.
