OKLAHOMA CITY- (KOKH) — U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins spoke in Yukon Friday about how the government is trying to tackle the New World Screwworm.
“When New World Screwworm burrow into the flesh of living animals, they cause serious damage that can be deadly if left untreated. They infest live stock, pets, wildlife, and as we saw recently in very rare cases, humans,” she said.
Those are parasitic flies that were eradicated from the us in the 1960s. Now, they’re starting to make a comeback, threatening agriculture…