# USDA agencies work together to eradicate an old foe: the screwworm - Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association

> USDA agencies describe their work to eradicate New World screwworm, which was found in Florida Key deer in October 2016 and declared eradicated from Florida by March 2017. Surveillance and eradication efforts with partners continue to keep the U.S. and other countries free of the pest.

- Date: 2018-01-09 · published 2018-01-09T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/66964-usda-agencies-work-together-to-eradicate-an-old-foe-the-screwworm-texas-and
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Ongoing screwworm surveillance keeps a background disease risk for cattle movement, but this is a general program update with no new outbreak to move prices.

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## Sources

- tscra.org: https://tscra.org/usda-agencies-work-together-to-eradicate-an-old-foe-the-screwworm/

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