3 dead after plane fighting screwworm spread crashes in southern Mexico

Author: The Associated Press, ABC News
\ Published on: 07/06/2025 | 01:47:06

AI Summary:
\ Two Guatemalan pilots and a Mexican agronomist engineer died when their plane crashed in southern Mexico. Mexico had stepped up efforts to control the spread of screwworm in cattle. The screwworm is a larva of the Cochliomyia hominivorax fly that can invade the tissues of any warm-blooded animal.

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