美国的食品供应是安全的，@USDA 正在采取迅速、强有力的行动来根除新世界螺蛭虫。

这是一种害虫，美国在20世纪60年代通过协调的科学技术和不育蝇技术成功根除了它。

在前届政府领导下，新世界螺蛭虫开始重新出现，并通过达连峡谷向北移动，因为数百万人在向南部边境迁移。

到2023年，螺蛭虫已出现在墨西哥。

去年二月我上任时，得知前届政府仅有五名全职员工在处理螺蛭虫问题，这令人震惊。

截至上周三，我们确认首例新世界螺蛭虫病例时，@USDA 已拥有超过100名员工从事准备和响应工作——这是我们在过去14个月里为迎接这一刻而组建的团队。此外，我们还承诺并投资了13亿美元用于新基础设施和不育蝇设施，这些设施将于本月晚些时候首次启用。

我们迅速扩大了应对力度：在高风险走廊扩大监测，加强与州农业官员和国际伙伴的协调，并加速部署经证明有效的无菌蝇行动，这些行动在20世纪60年代成功地将这种害虫赶出美国，并在80年代一直推进到南美洲。

我们在60年代战胜了螺蛭虫，我们将再次战胜它。请访问 http://t.cn/AXXFRCQB 获取更多信息和最新动态。🐄🇺🇸

America’s food supply is safe, and the @USDA is taking swift, aggressive action to eradicate New World screwworm.

This is a pest the United States successfully eradicated in the 1960s through coordinated science and sterile fly technology.

Under the previous administration, New World screwworm began to re-emerge and move north through the Darien Gap as millions of people traveled towards the southern border.

By 2023, screwworm was present in Mexico.

It was shocking when I came into office in February of last year to learn the last administration had just five full-time staff working on screwworm.

As of last Wednesday, when our first New World screwworm case was confirmed, USDA had over 100 staff working on preparedness and response—a team we built over the last 14 months in anticipation of this moment. This in addition to the $1.3 billion committed and invested for new infrastructure and sterile fly facilities, the first opening later this month.

We have rapidly scaled up our response: expanding surveillance across high-risk corridors, strengthening coordination with state agriculture officials and international partners, and accelerating deployment of proven sterile fly operations that were used successfully to push this pest out of the United States in the 1960s and all the way to South America by the 1980s.

We beat screwworm in the ’60s, and we will beat it again. Visit http://t.cn/AXXFRCQB for more information and up to date information.🐄🇺🇸 @SecRollins http://t.cn/AXXFRl4w