The first Sonora screwworm case was confirmed days before the US reopens cattle imports at Agua Prieta on 24 August, in the state meant to lead the restart.
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Key Facts
First case in Sonora since 1980. Senasica confirmed screwworm in a bovine at Munihuasa, in the Álamos municipality in the south of the state.
Nationally. Senasica counted 1,969 active cases in epidemiological week 33, up from 1,818 on 8 August.
The response. A 20-kilometre sanitary cordon, 360,000 sterile flies released and preventive treatment.
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