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The Agriculture Department said Wednesday evening that the U.S. would be closing the southern border to livestock trade, effective immediately, after reports that New World screwworm has resumed its northward spread. The announcement came just two days after USDA reopened a single port of entry for Mexican livestock in Arizona.

Not enough sterile flies are being dropped in Mexico to reverse New World screwworm’s northward spread, Mexico’s top agriculture official warned Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins last month, according to documents obtained by Agri-Pulse.