{"id":129408,"date":"2026-07-09T05:04:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2026\/07\/09\/what-you-need-to-know-about-new-world-screwworm\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2026-07-09T05:15:11","modified_gmt":"2028-12-25T05:15:11","slug":"what-you-need-to-know-about-new-world-screwworm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2026\/07\/09\/what-you-need-to-know-about-new-world-screwworm\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"What You Need To Know About New World Screwworm"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New World screwworm  has arrived in the United  States.<br \/>\n\t  For years, ranchers across Southern states have prepared  for a potential invasion of the flesh-eating parasite that can wreak havoc on livestock,  pets and even humans.<br \/>\n\t  Though the United States went decades without a confi rmed case of the invasive pest, it\u2019s now made its way across the U.S.-Mexico border.  Officials have confirmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"news-destination":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129408"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129624,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129408\/revisions\/129624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129408"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=129408"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=129408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}