# The 'Wall' That Keeps Flesh-Eating Worms Out of America - The Atlantic

> The USDA maintains an international screwworm barrier along the Panama-Colombia rainforest, where planes weekly drop sterilized screwworm flies to keep the pest from reaching North America. The article describes the ongoing human effort required to hold the barrier in place.

- Date: 2020-05-26 · published 2020-05-26T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/53078-the-wall-that-keeps-flesh-eating-worms-out-of-america-the-atlantic
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Screwworm incursions would trigger livestock movement restrictions and sharp cattle price moves in the US, so sustained containment supports normal cattle and feed flows.

## Read by commodity

- FCATTLE: neutral
- LCATTLE: neutral

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2021-08-13 | [America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms](https://feedsoft.ai/events/45516-america-s-never-ending-battle-against-flesh-eating-worms.md) | -0.1% | +1.0% |
| LCATTLE | 2020-07-20 | [Keeping countries free from flesh-eating worms - Gene Drive Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52053-keeping-countries-free-from-flesh-eating-worms-gene-drive-network.md) | -0.8% | +4.9% |
| LCATTLE | 2024-12-20 | [How America Lost Control of the Bird Flu, Setting the Stage for Another Pandemic - KFF Health News](https://feedsoft.ai/events/16043-how-america-lost-control-of-the-bird-flu-setting-the-stage-for-another-pandemic.md) | +0.9% | +4.1% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-12-11 | [Inside the program that breeds billions of screwworm flies each year \| National Geographic](https://feedsoft.ai/events/55548-inside-the-program-that-breeds-billions-of-screwworm-flies-each-year-national.md) | +1.1% | +5.1% |
| LCATTLE | 2024-07-31 | [New World Screw Worm returns to Central America \| Amandala Newspaper](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29216-new-world-screw-worm-returns-to-central-america-amandala-newspaper.md) | -1.7% | -3.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2020-07-20 | [Keeping countries free from flesh-eating worms - Gene Drive Network](https://feedsoft.ai/events/52053-keeping-countries-free-from-flesh-eating-worms-gene-drive-network.md) | -0.5% | +0.9% |
| FCATTLE | 2024-07-18 | [Collaborative Efforts to Combat the Cattle Screwworm in Latin America - LatinAmerican Post](https://feedsoft.ai/events/29214-collaborative-efforts-to-combat-the-cattle-screwworm-in-latin-america.md) | -0.6% | -4.1% |
| FCATTLE | 2019-03-06 | [Boston Herald - Boston news, sports, politics, opinion, entertainment, weather and obituaries - USDA Unveils $100 Million 'Grand Challenge' to Thwart Flesh-Eating Screwworm as Threat Reaches U.S. Border](https://feedsoft.ai/events/60056-boston-herald-boston-news-sports-politics-opinion-entertainment-weather-and.md) | +0.3% | +2.8% |

## Sources

- theatlantic.com: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/

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