JUST IN: Secretary Brooke Rollins Announces IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION of Cattle, Horse, and Bison Imports at Southern Border Over “New World Screwworm” Threat

Gateway Pundit ^ | May 11, 2025 | Jim Hoft

[FlatulusMaximus]

It’s yet another attempt to get us to eat bugs.

[vetvetdoug]

Time to start dropping irradiated male screwworm flies from aircraft along the border. Back in the 60’s it wasn’t uncommon to find the cardboard boxes strewn near the Rio Grande.

[Flaming Conservative]

Uh oh. Beef was notoriously higher than ever before, the past 4 years, and had just recently been getting a little cheaper.

[Macho MAGA Man]

I know. I can’t imagine the price outcome of this.

[9YearLurker]

We ought to be able to supply our own beef!

[liberalh8ter]

Northern Argentina is affected by New World Screwworm. All of SA has it. It does affect humans, as well.

[umbagi]

I hope they’re still set up to restart that. They eliminated screwworms in th US in the 1960’s with this program.

I worked a summer at the FBO near my home, and refueled many of those planes, a fleet of Mooney Mark-20s. They were fitted with a device with a slanted hopper into which the pilot stacked 8 or 10 of those boxes at a time, which were ejected at appropriate intervals, with a blade cutting the box open as it went out.

When the pilot opened the door at the gas pump, a swarm of flies came out; the boxes weren’t that secure…

By the way, the treatment I applied to many a screwworm infestation on our ranch was “White King,” but I heard of some folks using Black Flag, or some such. Back then, screwworms cost the industry, including my father, a few billion dollars a year, back when that was real money. The screwworm eradication program was one of the most cost-effective government programs ever.

[umbagi]

They raised the flies in the lab, and irradiated them all, male and female, sterilizing them. Fertile females could only be bred once, and sterile males could do many females. Therefore the sterile females were irrelevant, but the males effectively sterilized every female they could find. It worked; it will work again, if we shut the border and resume drops.

Mexican cattle are skinny and tough, anyway…

[Elsie]

We have to IMPORT bison??

[Elsie]

Screwworm?

I thought I had porno turned off.

[married21]

Thank you so much for this post. And thanks to all who chimed in with personal knowledge and experience. That is Free Republic at its best.
I forwarded it to my son, who is going to go to vet school in West Texas. He said he knows old vets who remember screw worm.