Under Secretary Hutchins from USDA, himself a 31 year entomologist, will give us more on that in a minute. And finally we have, we have always been over the last year strengthening surveillance, detection and preparedness. We are actively monitoring over 8,000 surve that we set out last year along the US Mexico border. and have examined in that time 59,000 plus fly samples and over 19,000 wildlife specimens since January of last year. On top of this, enhancing the border surveillance through increased trapping, increasing our mounted patrols, our tick riders. (32:11–32:20)
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