{"id":74433,"date":"2026-06-04T08:56:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/alarm-as-once-eradicated-flesh-eating-parasite-found-in-calf-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T08:56:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T13:56:05","slug":"alarm-as-once-eradicated-flesh-eating-parasite-found-in-calf-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/alarm-as-once-eradicated-flesh-eating-parasite-found-in-calf-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USDA confirms first case of New World screwworm in cattle in six decades, posing threat to livestock industry<\/p>\n<p>A flesh-eating parasite rarely seen in the US in six decades has been found in a calf in Texas, agriculture officials said, in an alarming development for the country\u2019s cattle industry.<\/p>\n<p>The New World screwworm fly (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aphis.usda.gov\/animals\/animal-health\/livestock-and-poultry-disease\/stop-screwworm\">NWS<\/a>) was confirmed in the animal in the south of the state, about 50 miles from the Mexico border, Brooke Rollins, the agriculture secretary, said late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jun\/04\/new-world-screwworm-texas-cattle-industry\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USDA confirms first case of New World screwworm in cattle in six decades, posing threat to livestock industry A flesh-eating parasite rarely seen in the US in six decades has been found in a calf in Texas, agriculture officials said, in an alarming development for the country\u2019s cattle industry. The New World screwworm fly (NWS) &#8230; <a title=\"Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/04\/alarm-as-once-eradicated-flesh-eating-parasite-found-in-calf-in-texas\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alarm as once-eradicated flesh-eating parasite found in calf in Texas\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}