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28/09/2026

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🪰Sterile Flies Reporting for Duty! 🪰

Number of the Day: 1,317,696,095

Our efforts to combat the New World screwworm are reaching new heights! 🛫

With over 1.317 billion sterile flies now released in the U.S., we’re bolstering the nation’s agricultural defenses. Each fly is a step closer to victory in safeguarding our fields and pastures. Let’s keep pushing forward!

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25/09/2026

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USDA HAS RELEASED MORE THAN 1.2 BILLION STERILE FLIES TO FIGHT SCREWWORM. HERE'S WHAT THAT MEANS.

The number was 1,234,529,565. On September 17, USDA's screwworm response team said that many sterile flies had been released in the U.S. since February.

The weapon is the same one that won last time. New World screwworm was eradicated from the United States in 1966 using the sterile insect technique. Sterile flies are released to disrupt the wild population's reproduction, so fewer maggots hatch in the next generation.

The fight is big and expensive. At a Sept. 17 press conference, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said USDA has put more than $1.3 billion into the response, including surveillance, drone flights and animal monitoring. USDA officials said 48 cases had been confirmed nationwide by then, and that no animals had died from the parasite.

It isn't over. A case was confirmed in a horse in Grant County, New Mexico, the same day. That brought the U.S. to about 50 cases since June, almost all in Texas, with three active. Across the border in Mexico, nearly 2,000 cases remain active.

More flies are coming. A sterile-fly production plant is under construction at Moore Air Base in Texas, expected to be done by November 2027. Rollins has said that together with other facilities, it will allow an estimated 500 million sterile flies to be released every week.

What hasn't changed is the job on the ground. Check every wound, navel and fresh cut, and report anything suspicious to your vet or state animal health office right away.

Have you changed how you check cattle since screwworm showed up in the U.S.? 👇

Sources: USDA New World Screwworm Rapid Response, via Transport Topics (Sept. 17–18, 2026) · Secretary Rollins press conference, Santa Teresa, N.M. (Sept. 17, 2026), via KFOX14 · Bloomberg, via BusinessMirror (Sept. 20, 2026) · Texas Animal Health Commission, New World Screwworm page · ABC News (June 2026)

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10/09/2026

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Série Especial do Jornal da USP sobre os CENA 60 anos ganha destaque na mídia de Piracicaba

PIRANOT - Júnior Cardoso resgata a trajetória do CENA-USP e mostra como o legado nuclear contribuiu para transformar Piracicaba em referência em ciência agrícola, revisita a história da instituição e sua importância para a ciência e para o desenvolvimento da agricultura.

A matéria apresenta a trajetória do CENA ao longo de seis décadas, desde suas origens ligadas à tecnologia nuclear até sua consolidação como um importante centro de pesquisa, formação e inovação científica.

A publicação integra as homenagens aos 60 anos do CENA-USP, celebrando uma história construída por pesquisadores, docentes, estudantes e servidores que contribuíram para transformar conhecimento científico em avanços para a sociedade.

🔗 Confira a reportagem completa: https://www.piranot.com.br/2026/09/08/noticias/brasil/estado-sao-paulo/interior/rmp/piracicaba-noticias/cena-transforma-legado-nuclear-em-ci%c3%aancia-agr%c3%adcola-e-chega/

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Assessoria de Comunicação

08/09/2026

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Para compreender a história do Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura (Cena) da USP, é preciso navegar pela história do mundo, do Brasil e da política nuclear, por suas controvérsias, seus vaivéns e suas turbulências. Mas também é preciso mergulhar nas narrativas pessoais de quem ajudou a...