Now surrounded by a healthy herd of longhorn cattle, Dove is anticipating the return of screwworm, the parasitic fly that eats livestock and wildlife alive.

From 1972 to 1976, a screwworm outbreak in the United States infested tens of thousands of cattle across six states, cost tens of millions of dollars to contain, and was only defeated after a massive eradication effort.

Today, the parasitic flies are pushing northward from Central America again after being officially eradicated from the U.S. in 1966, threatening $1.8 billion in damage to Texas’ economy alone, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture estimate.

An outbreak could further elevate record-high beef prices by keeping more calves out of the U.S. cattle supply.

Ranchers in central Mexico are discovering the dreaded fly’s maggots burrowed in their cattle for the first time in a generation, and a factory in Panama is losing a race against time to breed sterile flies, the most powerful tool to quell an outbreak.

As cases in livestock – and occasionally in humans and house pets – increase, it’s more likely than not that the fly will infest the U.S. again, Dr. Thomas Lansford, assistant state veterinarian at the Texas Animal Health Commission, and other experts told Reuters. FULL REPORT

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