After decades of containment in the Central American tropics, the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating cattle parasite, has been detected in Texas and New Mexico.
Here & Now鈥�s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with veterinary entomologist of the University of Florida鈥檚 Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences about what this means for U.S. livestock.
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