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The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Rollins said Wednesday that sterile male New World screwworm flies bred at the $8.5 million facility would be released into the wild…
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The US plans to open a fly factory in Texas as part of its fight against a flesh-eating parasite
By JOHN HANNA Associated Press
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The U.S. government plans to open what amounts to a fly factory by the end of the year to breed millions of the insects in Texas near the border with Mexico as part of an effort to keep a flesh-eating parasite from infesting American cattle. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins Rollins said Wednesday that sterile male
