Xinhua News Agency, Los Angeles, October 7 (Reporter Tan Jingjing) U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rawlings said on the 6th that he received a notification from the Mexican government that Mexico had found a new animal case of "New World spiral myiasis" about 270 kilometers away from the border between the two countries. The U.S. government has taken emergency actions to prevent and control it.

Rollins posted on social media X that the case is currently considered an isolated incident, about 160 kilometers south of the site where the case was last discovered in Mexico. USDA staff will arrive at the scene and independently verify the situation. Similar to the previous response measures when cases were discovered in northeastern Mexico, USDA personnel will implement prevention and control measures such as trapping and surveillance in and surrounding areas where cases occur.

She said that despite the "shutdown" of the U.S. federal government, the Department of Agriculture will continue to operate and continue to update the public based on developments.

According to the Mexican Ministry of Agriculture, this is the second recent confirmed case in Mexico of a new-continent spiral flies, infected with a bull. New-continent spiral flies is a disease caused by the larvae of spiral flies. This flies produces eggs in the open wounds of the permanent animals, the larvae enters the wound after incubation, can cause pain in the wound and is accompanied by a bad smell. If not detected and treated early, it can cause large area tissue damage and even death.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention website, at the end of August this year, the U.S. a human case of new-continent spiral flies, where patients returned to the U.S. after traveling to El Salvador.