According to reports, the United States Department of Agriculture warned Mexico that all imports of living animals will cease unless
The Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, issued a scathing letter to his Mexican counterpart on Saturday that threatens to block the import of live cattle, bison and horses if the government does not fight the propagation of New World for 30, Fox.
“Now we are at a critical turning point in our campaign against this plague, and I am very worried about our collaboration,” said the letter, obeyed by Fox.
“The outbreak in southern Mexico continues to expand, and every day that passes without the total deployment of operations of sterile insect techniques (SIT) to the respondents a lost opportunity to contain this plague and avoid its propagation beyond the Isthmus of Tehuantepec.”
The screw worm is mainly addressed to the periphery of fresh wounds in hot blood, as well as birds, deer and humans, where it deposits with egg hunters that hatch the worms they eat in the babone, control of accordion and prevention.
When hatching, the larvae can infest the blood torrent, causing an extremely painful condition called miiasis and consume their guest from inside out.
Rollins said that Mexican customs officials have imposed costly import tariffs on critical supplies, including sterile flies, aviation pieces and dispersion equipment, with aviation authorities that also limit the necessary crucial operations to prevent pests in stalking from progressing through the border.
“We do not understand how our official efforts to stop a better common way can be subject to customs so burdens,” he pressed in his letter to the Secretary of Agriculture of Mexico, Julio Berdegué Sacristán.
“These delays and costs not only interrupt operations, but also run the risk of delaying the deployment of aircraft at the right time in which quick actions are needed more.”
He urged the Government of Mexico to provide immediate operational aviation authorization, full service exemptions in all emergency equipment and install a high -level link expedition solutions.
Rollins warned that “time is the essence.”
“Every delay in granting complete operational authority and the elimination of personalized barriers undermines our collective capacity to carry out this emergency response. We cannot afford continuous with partial strength,” Rollins said.
“I must inform you that if these problems are not resolved for Wednesday, April 30, the USDA will restrict the importation of animal products, which consist of living, bison and equine origin of transport in the united agriculture. Interest of agriculture.” “
