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Brooke Rollins: “From 1994 to 2006, USDA cleared the new World screw worm…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Governor Abbott and USDA Secretary Rollins announce escalated response to Texas screwworm outbreak

Published | Video Starts at 26:48

That was in 1966. In 1986, the U.S. mexico Commission succeeded in pushing the New World Screwworm out of Mexico. 1986. From 1994 to 2006, USDA cleared the new World screw worm entirely from Central America, pushing it back past the Darien Gap. where we assumed it would stay forever, at least until we saw it moving in the last five years again in 2016. (26:48–26:59)

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Asserts USDA cleared New World Screwworm from Central America between 1994 and 2006.

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