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(KGNS) - Gov. Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for Zavala and Uvalde counties following confirmation of a New World Screwworm detection in Texas."We have eradicated this pest before, and we will do it again," Abbott said.

The declaration authorizes the use of all available state resources to respond to the threat and makes state personnel available to accelerate the movement of sterile flies into Texas and the construction of a new sterile screwworm production facility in Edinburg.