MEXICO CITY, (EFE) .- Mexico and the United States began on Monday the verification meetings against the boreride of cattle, as part of the process to reopen the US border to the cattle from Mexico, since it has been closed since May by an outbreak of this plague in southern Mexico.
The Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader), Julio Berdegué, reported on social networks of the start of sessions in Mexico City with a technical mission of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), which will review the advances of the National Strategy to Combat the Barrenador worm (GBG).
“I am pleased to inform that today the meetings in Mexico City began with the first group of the USDA mission that will verify the results and actions of the strategy of combating the borer of cattle. We will continue informing,” Berdegué wrote on social networks.
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This process occurs after Berdegué and the secretary of the USDA, Brooke Rollins, agreed to advance in a binational campaign to eradicate the plague and resume the livestock exports of Mexico to the US, suspended by Washington since May 11.
Although the formal suspension concluded on May 25, the border remains closed waiting for a final technical resolution.
Rollins expressed his satisfaction with the measures taken by Mexico and supported the construction of a new sterile flies production in Chiapas, in the south of the country, as part of the biological combat proposed by the Mexican authorities.
In parallel, Berdegué met Monday with the US ambassador to Mexico, Ronald D. Johnson, during a forum organized by American Chamber of Mexico.
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“Agriculture is key in bilateral ties. A safe and efficient border reduces costs and speeds up trade, for the benefit of producers and consumers,” Johnson said on their social networks.
This plague, eradicated in Mexico in 1991, returned to register at the end of 2024, which has represented a danger to the trade of standing cattle, since the larva of the boreride worm can infect open wounds, causing severe infections.
Until last week, the Ministry of Health had already confirmed six cases in humans, mainly in Chiapas.
For its part, the National Agricultural Council (CNA) has warned that the suspension of exports could generate losses of up to 11.4 million dollars per day for the national livestock sector.
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