The meat sweeter worm has moved north through Central America and southern Mexico, putting the United States livestock industry on a maximum alert and taking the government of that country to maintaining most of its closed border to imports of Mexican cattle since May.
The USDA said it is analyzing “all the new information related to the recent case in Nuevo León and will study all the options to release sterile flies in this region as necessary.”
A human case of the Cattle Barer in the United States notified in August was no risk for the livestock sector, according to a USDA official.
Asked by a reporter at her daily press conference, President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Monday that a team from the US Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, ended a few days ago a visit of several weeks to Mexico to review what the country is doing to face the plague.
“They are yet to give their determination. They found (…) that everything that is in our hands is being done to avoid greater pollution of the boreride worm and are about to broadcast their opinion,” he said, without offering more details.
