livestock
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A flesh-eating parasitic fly is once again threatening the nation’s livestock, after being eradicated from the U.S. six decades ago.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
The case is the first confirmed in U.S. livestock in decades.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026
Agency for International Development program that monitored the screwworm parasite, whose reemergence threatens to cost the Texas economy billions in livestock losses.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 11, 2026
“Parasites are things that everybody in livestock production deals with,” and there are drugs approved by the FDA to treat them, Woodall told MarketWatch.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 10, 2026
In human societies possessing domestic animals, livestock fed more people in four distinct ways: by furnishing meat, milk, and fertilizer and by pulling plows.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
Vocabulary lists containing livestock
Unit 1: Telling Details
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Down on the Farm
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The United States
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