South Texas Animal Health Update.

Late summer's lingering heat across much of south Texas poses health risks for humans, livestock, equine and wildlife all across the state. The lingering summer heat in South Texas is cause for concern over the migration of fever ticks from the Texas Permanent Quarantine Zone (PQZ) located along a stretch of the lower Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border. The agencies have been fighting Cattle Fever ticks outside of the PQZ for several years, most recently in late July when ticks were discovered on an animal at a Jim Wells County at a voluntary inspection program dipping vat. [Extracted from the article]

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