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There are more than 1,400 pests and diseases on the government's plant health risk register, but Ips has been labelled "public enemy number one".

Ghanem went missing in May 2023 shortly after parting ways with the religious group and opening a pest control company that competed with a business operated by a group leader.

Ghanem, who had relocated to Nashville, was back in the Inland Empire in May 2023 to bolster his pest control business, according to police.

The pest primarily affects livestock, and authorities have said the risk to US public health was currently "very low".

At that time the Salvation Army said pest control was brought in to fumigate the rooms affected.