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Rosalind Biggs

Rosalind Biggs

Dr. Rosslyn Biggs, Associate Professor of Veterinary Clinical Sciences at Oklahoma State University and beef cattle extension specialist specializing in livestock health and screwworm prevention

Jul 24, 2026

6:46
Can you talk about risk for cattle operations and also for horses? So can you walk us through what you're seeing and also what to look out for in both production livestock and livestock? and horses.
7:00
Well, I think it's important that we note, we talk a lot about it in the cattle space because we're really concerned there.
7:07
And certainly that's been the three of us on here today, our primary focus.
7:13
But this particular fly will infest any warm-blooded animal.
7:17
In fact, there's actually been detections last summer, about a year ago, in humans in the U.S. that had traveled to...
7:28
Central and South America, and then came back with an infestation.
7:33
And so, although the human risk is very small, it is present.

19 MINS LATER

26:53
You know, what should we be looking out for? And you covered that a little bit before, but kind of summarize that for us so we can leave people with a good, confident feeling about staying on top of this and preventing it.

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