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Brooke Rollins: “USDA confirmed the presence of a new World Screwworm case…”

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

Published June 8, 2026 | Video Starts at 24:32

… screwworm and what it poses to our nation's livestock and wildlife, what we are doing to combat it with our state, local and bination. Last Wednesday, of course, June 3rd, USDA confirmed the presence of a new World Screwworm case within the United States here in Texas in the umbilical wound of a calf in Zavala county in southern Texas. where I'll be heading. Actually, I'll be down there on Thursday. The calf has been treated and is recovering. (24:32–24:43)

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Asserts that USDA confirmed a New World Screwworm case in Texas.

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“100 million flies out of Panama. Everyone thought that would be enough to keep it eradicated.”
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“We haven't had it here for 60 years.”
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“In just over a year we have 19 new trade deals and new frameworks.”
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“We've cut an agricultural trade deficit by half based on what we inherited from Joe Biden, 50 billion down to about 25 billion in one year.”
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“On June 5th, just two days later, we confirmed a second positive detection in a 30 day old calf, also located just a few miles away in…”
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“Yesterday, USD confirmed two additional cases, one in Texas in a calf in La Salle county and another in Leah County, New Mexico, in a dog…”
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“Today, just a couple of hours ago, we had an additional confirmation in a goat in Gillespie County, Texas.”
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“In 1966, the continental US was declared free of the indigenous New World screwworm.”
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“In 1986, the U.S. Mexico Commission succeeded in pushing the New World Screwworm out of Mexico.”
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“The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers... have put [the project] at the very top of their priority list.”
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“From 1994 to 2006, USDA cleared the new World screw worm entirely from Central America, pushing it back past the Darien Gap.”
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“In 2022 is when the biological barrier in Panama at the Darien Gap was breached.”
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“By the end of the last administration, the pest had reached Mexico and began moving northward.”
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“Our administration took immediate action once we returned to office early last year, rapidly strengthening along partners here in Texas the…”
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“Every model showed that the new World Screw Room would be here in Texas by early last summer.”
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“We launched [expanding sterile fly production and dispersal capacity] last year, but earlier this year opened both a dispersal facility in…”
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“The massive facility we're building in Moore had in the production facility. We broke ground just a couple of months ago, expecting to reach…”
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“They have now put one of their top commanders, Colonel Matt Chase, on this as his sole project.”
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“USDA launched our new World Screwworm Grand Challenge... investing up to $100 million in innovative solutions.”
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“We are actively monitoring over 8,000 surve that we set out last year along the US Mexico border.”
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“We have examined in that time 59,000 plus fly samples and over 19,000 wildlife specimens since January of last year.”
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“We established a 20 kilometer infested zone around the detection from last week and will continue to implement movement controls and…”
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“We have expedited targeted release of the sterile flies which mate with the New World screwworm flies and prevent them from reproducing by…”
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“The food supply system remains intact and couldn't be safer or better than any other food supply system in the world.”
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“John [Bellinger] has tremendous private sector experience in the cattle industry, having founded the food safety net services.”
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“John Bellinger is on the Board of Regents at Texas A and M and is chair of the Commission on Research.”
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“The White House had signed off on, done the background checks and approved [the initiative] within 48 hours.”
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“We decided to do this Friday afternoon. So the team from Washington pulled this off, put this together.”
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“Our goal is to have enough sterile flies deployed and out into Texas and wherever else this happens to be before the next summer season pops…”
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“Normally a facility takes two years to permit, four years to build.”
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“I've been on zoom with our cattle raisers in Texas and especially our South Texas cattle raisers, non stop since last Wednesday.”
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“It's now here in the United States.”
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“It's still about 800 miles away from the port in Arizona.”
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“Closing the ports have been to some of our feeders and feedlots in this side of the border.”
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“It did give us an additional year and it also brought Mexico to the table to be our partners.”
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“The normal testing...is out of our National Vet Lab in Iowa. It's been that way for decades.”
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“We now have the testing fully here in Kerrville, Texas. So we no longer have to go to Iowa for that testing.”
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“There has been zero impact to this mission area, specifically to the screwworm based on that reduction in force.”
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“The work accelerated significantly beginning last spring, last January, when we came on board to prepare for this time.”
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