UN Launches $1 Million Screwworm Containment Project
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UN launches $1M screwworm containment project
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the U.N. food agency have launched a $1 million research project to help contain the screwworm outbreak in the Americas, including efforts to address a shortage of sterile flies, they said on Friday. The pest has re-emerged in Central America and Mexico and was confirmed in the U.S. this...
• FAO and IAEA launched a regional strategy to contain the expansion of the New World sweeper worm.• The programme envisages an investment of $1 million and will have an estimated duration of five years.• The initiative seeks to increase the production and release of sterile insects to protect livestock and animal health. They promote an international response to the resurgence of the plague The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Na…
ROME – The New World Sweeping Fly again attacks cattle in Mexico, Central America and the United States, and a program tries to stop it with sterilization using a nuclear technique, two organizations of the United Nations system reported on Friday. Rafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (Oiea) warned [...]
ROME, Italy.- The International Atomic Energy Agency and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations launched a new project to contain the expansion of the sweeper worm in Central America, Mexico and the United States through the use of nuclear technology. The initiative will use the Sterile Insect Technique (TIE), a method [...] La entrada Nuclear technology seeks to slow down advance of the sweeper worm aparece primero en PSN N…
The International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN Food Agency have launched a million-dollar research project to help contain the burrowing worm outbreak in the Americas, including measures to address the shortage of sterile flies, according to reports on Friday.The plague has reappeared in Central America and Mexico, and this month its presence has been confirmed in the United States, where it has not been registered for more than 40 years, inc…
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