Texas Public Radio

The CDC says good oral health during pregnancy and infancy is important to set children up for a lifetime of good health. But not all expectant mothers get that information, says Dr. Penelope Drayer, Clinical Associate Professor and Interim Clinic Director of the Department of Comprehensive Dentistry at Texas A&M College of Dentistry.

Before eradication, NWS was an economic disaster for the United States. The USDA estimated that producer losses related to infested livestock in the 1930s and 1940s cost the economy up to $10 million a year. If screwworms return to Texas, the federal agriculture agency predicts losses of nearly $2 billion a year. That cost doesn't only come from treating infested cattle, according to Sonja Swiger, Ph.D., of the Texas A&M University Department of Entomology and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension. Cattlemen would have to change many things about how they operate.