Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says her government will launch a support program for cattle ranchers who for months have been unable to export to the United States.
Sheinbaum made the announcement after a Wednesday meeting in Mexico City with the governor of Sonora.
After the New World screwworm was discovered in a cow in southern Mexico late last year, the border has been closed to cattle crossing into the U.S. on and off for nearly nine months.
The flesh-eating parasite can be deadly to warm-blooded animals.
While the northernmost report of the pest was hundreds of miles from the Mexico-U.S. border, U.S. Health and Human Services this week directed an emergency use authorization for animal drugs to treat or prevent New World screwworm infestations.
