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USDA unveils Texas screwworm facility, eradication strategy amid reopening of southern ports

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This includes building a sterile fly facility in Texas, strengthening border security as it resumes some Mexican livestock imports, and increasing research. To combat New World screwworm from Mexico, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched a five-pronged eradication plan.

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Highly pathogenic avian influenza found in Texas, Kansas dairy cattle

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State and federal officials continue to investigate after highly pathogenic avian influenza is identified in clinical samples obtained from dairy cattle in Texas and Kansas

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Texas A&M develops diagnostic index for canine GI issues

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A research team from the Texas A&M School of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences’ (VMBS) Gastrointestinal (GI) Laboratory has validated a new diagnostic index to help veterinarians assess chronic GI dysfunction in dogs.

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EIA outbreak kills 21 horses in Southwest US

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Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service investigation confirmed that 21 horses tested positive for equine infectious anemia as of late May across California, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.

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Texas lawyer to head agriculture department

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Senate confirmed Brooke Rollins, a Texas lawyer, as the 33rd secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture on February 13.

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Texas mega-rarity

10,000 Birds

While visiting the city of Corpus Christi in Texas in November 2023, we were told about a rare bird in the heart of the downtown. We went to the area where it had been reported. We were standing in front of a restaurant. On the other corners were a parking lot, an office building, and a barren, cement-covered lot.

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Court dismisses challenge to Texas in-person veterinarian-client-patient relationship requirement

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A federal district court has again upheld provisions of a Texas veterinary practice act mandating that a veterinary-client-patient relationship (VCPR) be established in person rather than remotely.

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