# Cattle Fever Ticks Make a Comeback in Texas | Animals, People, Pathogens

> Cattle fever ticks, which were largely eliminated from the US over 70 years ago, are returning and spreading beyond the Texas-Mexico border buffer zone. Current control techniques are less effective, and the ticks reduce milk and meat production and transmit babesiosis.

- Date: 2017-06-15 · published 2017-06-15T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: disease · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/70458-cattle-fever-ticks-make-a-comeback-in-texas-animals-people-pathogens
- Commodities: [Live Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/LCATTLE.md), [Feeder Cattle](https://feedsoft.ai/c/FCATTLE.md)

## Why it matters

Spreading tick-borne disease could reduce herd productivity and raise control costs in Texas cattle operations, but the national price impact is likely small at present.

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| LCATTLE | 2017-07-14 | [Cattle Fever Ticks Reinvade the United States: What Has Allowed their Return? \| Animals, People, Pathogens](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69918-cattle-fever-ticks-reinvade-the-united-states-what-has-allowed-their-return.md) | +0.1% | -3.8% |
| 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 | 2026-06-25 | [The screwworm parasite continues to spread in Texas, threatening cattle and wildlife : NPR](https://feedsoft.ai/events/18767-the-screwworm-parasite-continues-to-spread-in-texas-threatening-cattle-and.md) | -2.9% | -10.1% |
| LCATTLE | 2017-03-10 | [New year, old pests: Fever tick and screwworm - Department of Animal Science](https://feedsoft.ai/events/71963-new-year-old-pests-fever-tick-and-screwworm-department-of-animal-science.md) | +1.3% | +2.0% |
| LCATTLE | 2019-10-24 | [Deworming pays in most beef cattle operations - Texas & Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association](https://feedsoft.ai/events/56523-deworming-pays-in-most-beef-cattle-operations-texas-and-southwestern-cattle.md) | +1.6% | +6.6% |
| FCATTLE | 2017-07-14 | [Cattle Fever Ticks Reinvade the United States: What Has Allowed their Return? \| Animals, People, Pathogens](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69918-cattle-fever-ticks-reinvade-the-united-states-what-has-allowed-their-return.md) | -0.5% | -7.7% |
| 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 | 2017-08-21 | [Fever tick discussions ongoing - Texas Farm Bureau](https://feedsoft.ai/events/69402-fever-tick-discussions-ongoing-texas-farm-bureau.md) | +0.6% | +7.3% |

## Sources

- animalspeoplepathogens.com: https://www.animalspeoplepathogens.com/cattle-fever-ticks-make-a-comeback-in-texas/

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