The Government of Mexico signed commitments with ranchers to coordinate their efforts to contain the cattle screwworm (GBG) plague, which mainly affects cattle, but also domestic and wild species and humans.
In a statement, the Ministry of Agriculture reported the signing of the commitment letter with the National Confederation of Livestock Organizations (CNOG), which establishes a collaboration scheme focused on ensuring the “availability of qualified technical personnel” in the collection centers authorized by the National Agri-Food Health, Safety and Quality Service (Senasica).
“Agriculture works hand in hand with livestock producers to streamline and make more efficient preventive management, inspection and treatment against screwworm,” he added in the informative note, in which he highlighted the importance of producers assuming a “fundamental role to guarantee the health integrity of livestock from its origin.”
Among other additional measures, officials from this department will advise the veterinarians in charge of caring for the livestock, while supervising their sanitary conditions.
All of this to eradicate the screwworm plague from livestock, a task that “can only be achieved with shared responsibility and permanent commitment from all,” said Agriculture.
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This plague reappeared in the country a little over a year ago, which caused the United States to close its border to Mexican livestock exports on three occasions, the last one on July 9 after the detection of a case in the north of Veracruz.
Last August, the authorities of both countries signed a joint work plan to strengthen the binational strategy in this matter, in fields such as inspection, trapping, verification in transit or release of sterile flies.
Livestock imports from Mexico play an important role in the US, averaging more than one million head annually for decades, representing approximately 60% of live cattle imports.
This makes Mexico one of the main suppliers of live cattle to the United States.
With information from EFE.
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