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Cintalapa, Mexico (AP)-Mexican with cattle again with cattle entering the United States again this month, a meat-eating parasites, rankers and veterinarians have been stopped from the possibility of entering hundreds of miles from the border in Mexico, which are fighting with US agricultural authorities, which are on the shore.
In the southern state of Chiapus, which is on the boundaries of Guatemala, the rapid spread of the new world screw fly seems to appear that despite the memories of the previous outbreaks in the 1980s and 1990s, most of the Ranchers were caught away from the guards.
Mexico is building a plant with American support in Chiapas to produce sterile flies, which has proved effective in preventing spread, but it will not be ready by next year. Meanwhile, the price of drugs used to treat livestock infected with screwmates has increased in the price price.
Some people have fallen back to home remedies such as opening of wounds to remove insects for gasoline or lime.
In addition to the cost of the drug, treatment requires careful monitoring and usually involves several courses. Any open lesion, even too small, is an invitation to the fly to lay your eggs.
Veterinarian Alfredo Chavez left Chiapass to study in 1989, so he says that he missed the effects of that outbreak, but now he has seen matters multiplying in his corner of the state in the last month.
He has now heard about dozens of cases in the region and has treated a dozen about himself. It is not just a cow – sheep, boar, cats and dogs are also targets.
Armed with a pair of blue tweezers and an aerosol spray that helps to remove the magots, from the Chavez animal to the animal. He keeps the magots as samples in plastic tubes, which he provides to agricultural authorities.
But beyond encouraging the rankers to provide tubes and report cases, he said that the government has not given much help.
“We have faced it alone,” he said on Wednesday.
After the earlier suspension in May, the US gradually began to reopen the border for the import of cattle this month when the Trump administration said it would reinforce an infected animal after an infected animal, which was found in the Gulf Coast State Verakruz. While prevailing in Central America, the concern is that the fly is moving north.
American officials are worried that if the fly reaches Texas, its magots can cause major economic losses, something that happened decades ago.
Ranch caretaker ED Valencia Santos said that Mexican government officials have come to their community to talk to livestock people, but so far without resources. He had five infected animals in the farm.
Despite going into domestic consumption instead of the US, despite cattle in the region, the export of cattle to the US is frozen in the presence of screws in Mexico.
Valencia stated that he misses small aircraft distributing sterile flies during earlier outbreaks, so it is optimistic that they will eventually help, but the cost is being stored on the rankers for now.
“This is a big, big problem in Chiapas,” he said.
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