Honduras on alert due to increase in cases of the Cattle Screwworm
Screwworm is a disease caused by the larvae of a fly that lays its eggs in a wound of a warm-blooded animal.
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Honduran authorities have stepped up prevention efforts during the Morazan Week holiday, dispersing 3.2 million sterile flies by land in a total of 20 ground cameras to monitor cases of the screwworm.
The threat of the screwworm continues, and the authorities of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, call on producers to remain alert and collaborate with the efforts to prevent the spread of this pest, which puts the country’s livestock sector at risk.
terile fly technique
The sterile insect technique is an environmentally friendly method of insect pest control that involves mass rearing and sterilizing, by means of radiation, the insects causing a particular pest.
Once sterilized, the males are systematically released from the air in defined areas, where they mate with wild females without producing offspring, thereby reducing the population causing the plague.
Cases
These include the treatment of affected animals and the inspection of corrals in key areas. To date, eight cases of GBG have been recorded, seven of them in Choluteca and one in Olancho, as well as the treatment of affected animals.
Screwworm is a parasitic disease caused by the larvae of a fly that lays its eggs in any open wound of a warm-blooded animal.
The screwworm fly is 8 to 10 mm in size (twice that of a house fly), has reddish-orange eyes, a bright, metallic blue-green color, and has three black stripes on its thorax, the one in the center being shorter.
