# Cattle Fever Ticks Reinvade the United States: What Has Allowed their Return? | Animals, People, Pathogens

> Cattle fever ticks, which carry babesiosis, are reinvading Texas more than half a century after their near-elimination. The article attributes the resurgence to changes in people, livestock and wildlife in the region.

- Date: 2017-07-14 · published 2017-07-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/69918-cattle-fever-ticks-reinvade-the-united-states-what-has-allowed-their-return
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Babesiosis could cost the U.S. cattle industry about $1 billion a year if it spreads, but the risk remains a longer-term concern without a confirmed outbreak.

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2017-06-15 | [Cattle Fever Ticks Make a Comeback in Texas \| Animals, People, Pathogens](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70458-cattle-fever-ticks-make-a-comeback-in-texas-animals-people-pathogens.md) | -4.2% | -9.7% |
| LCATTLE | 2018-06-08 | [Quarantine Quandary, Update on the Texas Cattle Fever Ticks - Department of Animal Science](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64465-quarantine-quandary-update-on-the-texas-cattle-fever-ticks-department-of-animal.md) | +0.8% | -2.6% |
| LCATTLE | 2023-10-22 | [A screwworm fly that bedeviled cattle ranchers decades ago has returned to Texas](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33562-a-screwworm-fly-that-bedeviled-cattle-ranchers-decades-ago-has-returned-to-texas.md) | +0.4% | -3.5% |
| LCATTLE | 2018-01-01 | [Canada Blocks Texas Cattle as Flesh-Eating Screwworm Returns to the US After 60 Years](https://feedsoft.ai/events/66963-canada-blocks-texas-cattle-as-flesh-eating-screwworm-returns-to-the-us-after-60.md) | -0.4% | +1.9% |
| LCATTLE | 2024-04-30 | [US live cattle, feeder cattle futures end lower - CME
						 \| The Cattle Site](https://feedsoft.ai/events/5417-us-live-cattle-feeder-cattle-futures-end-lower-cme-the-cattle-site.md) | -1.9% | +1.1% |
| FCATTLE | 2017-06-15 | [Cattle Fever Ticks Make a Comeback in Texas \| Animals, People, Pathogens](https://feedsoft.ai/events/70458-cattle-fever-ticks-make-a-comeback-in-texas-animals-people-pathogens.md) | -1.0% | +4.7% |
| FCATTLE | 2018-06-08 | [Quarantine Quandary, Update on the Texas Cattle Fever Ticks - Department of Animal Science](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64465-quarantine-quandary-update-on-the-texas-cattle-fever-ticks-department-of-animal.md) | -1.6% | +4.2% |
| FCATTLE | 2023-10-22 | [A screwworm fly that bedeviled cattle ranchers decades ago has returned to Texas](https://feedsoft.ai/events/33562-a-screwworm-fly-that-bedeviled-cattle-ranchers-decades-ago-has-returned-to-texas.md) | -2.0% | -5.5% |

## Sources

- animalspeoplepathogens.com: https://www.animalspeoplepathogens.com/cattle-fever-ticks-reinvade-the-united-states-what-has-allowed-their-return/

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