{"id":80305,"date":"2026-10-21T19:55:29","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/officials-confirm-flesh-eating-new-world-screwworm-parasite-found-in-us-wildlife\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T19:55:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:55:29","slug":"officials-confirm-flesh-eating-new-world-screwworm-parasite-found-in-us-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/officials-confirm-flesh-eating-new-world-screwworm-parasite-found-in-us-wildlife\/","title":{"rendered":"Officials confirm flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite found in US wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>USDA says screwworm found in elk in Texas, and warns hunters and ranchers to be vigilant to help stop spread<\/p>\n<p>The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday it had \u2060confirmed the \u2060first detection \u200bof flesh-eating parasite the New World screwworm in US wildlife in an \u2060elk in Pecos county, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The elk was located on a game \u2060ranch and was reported after being harvested by \u200ba hunter, the \u200cUSDA said \u200cin a statement.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/21\/new-world-screwworm-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USDA says screwworm found in elk in Texas, and warns hunters and ranchers to be vigilant to help stop spread The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) said on Wednesday it had \u2060confirmed the \u2060first detection \u200bof flesh-eating parasite the New World screwworm in US wildlife in an \u2060elk in Pecos county, Texas. The elk was &#8230; <a title=\"Officials confirm flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite found in US wildlife\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/21\/officials-confirm-flesh-eating-new-world-screwworm-parasite-found-in-us-wildlife\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Officials confirm flesh-eating New World screwworm parasite found in US wildlife\">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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80305","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=80305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}