Merck Animal Health SVP: to promote human health, invest in protecting animals
Sixty years ago, the United States painstakingly “eradicated” the New World screwworm — a flesh-eating maggot that once decimated cattle herds across the South. The campaign saved livestock producers approximately $6 billion annually, accounting for inflation. Yet now, after brief outbreaks in Texas during the 1970s and the Florida Keys in 2016, the dangerous parasite…