State Rep. Don McLaughlin of Uvalde released a statement on June 1 claiming that parasitic screwworms had almost breached the Texas-Mexico border.
“This is not true,” a post on the USDA’s X account responded.
On June 3, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins confirmed that a sample taken from a three-week-old calf in Zavala County contained the damaging maggots.
Now, after a slow federal…
