{"id":5997,"date":"2025-05-15T21:33:05","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T01:33:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/?p=5997"},"modified":"2025-05-16T23:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T03:19:09","slug":"screwworm-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/screwworm-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Screwworm Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>US Department of Agriculture (USDA) secretary Brooke Rollins yesterday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usda.gov\/about-usda\/news\/press-releases\/2025\/05\/11\/secretary-rollins-suspends-live-animal-imports-through-ports-entry-along-southern-border-effective\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suspended<\/a>\u00a0the import of live cattle, horses, and bison across the United States\u2019 border with Mexico due to the rapid northward spread of New World screwworm (NWS), which can cause cattle loss and has also been linked to sporadic infections in people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/misc-emerging-topics\/usda-suspends-southern-border-livestock-imports-over-new-world-screwworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"555\" height=\"721\" src=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6039-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6039-1.jpg 555w, https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/img_6039-1-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cidrap.umn.edu\/misc-emerging-topics\/usda-suspends-southern-border-livestock-imports-over-new-world-screwworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">READ MORE<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Department of Agriculture (USDA) secretary Brooke Rollins yesterday\u00a0suspended\u00a0the import of live cattle, horses, and bison across the United States\u2019 border with Mexico due to the rapid northward spread of New World screwworm (NWS), which can cause cattle loss and has also been linked to sporadic infections in people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":5996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[340,526],"class_list":["post-5997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-herd-health","tag-herd-health","tag-screwworm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irishdextercattlemen.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}