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Flesh-Eating Parasite Returns, Threatens Texas Cattle

Two new Texas cases of flesh-eating New World screwworm raise total to four, threatening the cattle industry. Larvae consume live tissue from wounds. Officials boost sterile fly production to combat the pest, eradicated in the U.S. in the 1960s.