Abbott expands Texas emergency response to eradicate New World screwworm

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Greg Abbott (R-TX) on Monday expanded Texas’s emergency response to the New World screwworm, as the parasitic fly’s passage across the U.S. border threatens the state’s multibillion-dollar livestock industry.

Abbott directed Texas’s emergency operations center to activate to Level II, the “escalated response” level, to support the state’s screwworm response.

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