Flesh-eating screwworm found in Texas cattle

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Explainer-how flesh-eating screwworms in cattle could raise US beef prices
By Heather Schlitz CHICAGO, June 4 (Reuters) - New World screwworm, a devastating parasite that eats cattle and other wild animals alive, traveled north from Central America to Mexico before being confirmed in a Texas calf on Wednesday,

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Flesh-eating screwworm arrives in US with case detected in Texas cattle
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USDA confirms second Texas screwworm case as outbreak fears grow
A second case of the flesh-eating screwworm parasite was confirmed in Texas by the U.S. Department of Agriculture on June 5, emerging just miles from where the first U.S. detection in decades was repo...

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