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Vicente Gonzalez: “We needed to be producing 700 million sterile flies weekly…”

Featuring: Vicente Gonzalez, Democratic | U.S. House, Texas, District 34

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Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) on looming threat of New World screwworm | Dec. 21, 2025

Published | Video Starts at 00:30

We met with the USDA, Dr. Kim Lowermeyer in central Texas. I think she's probably, you know, the global expert on this issue. She told us at the time We needed to be producing 700 million sterile flies weekly. At the time, we were producing about 200. A few months from there, we it moved from the border to. To Vera Cruz, and now it's one state away from the state of Texas. (00:30–00:38)

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Asserts that 700 million sterile flies are needed weekly, but only 200 million were being produced.

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