Senate Democrats push USDA to boost efforts targeting ‘evolving’ screwworm outbreak

Nearly two dozen Democratic senators on Thursday urged the Agriculture Department to expand its war against the New World screwworm, warning that new tactics are needed after the parasitic fly recently crossed the U.S. border.

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Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), and Martin Heinrich (D-NM) led the group in asking Secretary […] ...