The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is shifting gears on its sterile fly dispersal strategy and bringing its New World screwworm (NWS) mitigation efforts even closer to home. On Jan. 30, the agency’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced that its 100 million sterile flies that are produced every week will begin to be dispersed along the US-Mexico border, including the Texas side of the border.
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