Counties released from New World Screwworm

Gillespie, Kerr, Kimble, La Salle, and Webb Counties are released from being a New World Screwworm Infested Zone. According to the Texas Animal Health Commission the above counties have been removed from movement restrictions. The eradication strategies have eliminated the wild NWS in these areas. The Commission though will continue to conduct regulatory activities in these counties such as sterile fly releases, fly surveillance trapping and animal surveillance.