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Officials are dispersing millions of sterile screwworm flies in the vicinity of where the infected calf was found.Credit...Kaylee Greenlee/Reuters By Edgar Sandoval Reporting from San Antonio New York Times Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas said on Friday that the state is working with the federal government to slow the spread of the New World screwworm days after the first case was detected in the United States in decades. Later in the day, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that a second case had been confirmed, this time in a one-month-old calf. The cases are about five miles apart in Zavala County, southwest of San Antonio. The second case was anonymously confirmed by an official with the Texas Animal Health Commission who was not authorized to speak publicly. The calf is being treated, the official said. Mr. Abbott said in a press briefing Friday that Texas, led by the U.S.D.A., is dispersing millions of sterile male New World screwworm flies that would prev...
