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Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm (hereinafter COPEG),
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Slide 1
Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm (hereinafter COPEG),
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Slide 1
Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Panama-United States Commission for the Eradication and Prevention of Screwworm (hereinafter COPEG),
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

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Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Slide 1
Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

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Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama 
COPEG

Currently, the New World Screwworm (NWS) remains in the eradication stage with incidences of positive cases in all the provinces of Panama except for the Guna Yala Region. By december 4th, Panama has a total of 22,611 positive cases, while at the regional level there is presence of NWS in Costa Rica with a total of 11,627 cases since the declaration of the outbreak, in Nicaragua there have been 6,436 cases, in Honduras 105 cases, in Guatemala 32 cases and Mexico only 2 cases of NWS to date.

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

Currently Situation of Screwworm in Panama
COPEG

Was created with the sole purpose to plan, design, construct, equip and operate a production plant of sterile flies for Screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax), to eradicate and prevent its re-infestation in the Republic of Panama, without causing harm to the environment

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Reference to December 4, 2024

Panama cases: 22,611
Costa Rica cases: 11,627
Nicaragua cases: 6,436
Honduras cases: 105
Guatemala cases: 32
Mexico cases: 2

SW CASES IN THE REGION

ciclo de vida mosca del GBG

Sexually mature Flies

Copulation

Host seeking by gravid female

Deposition of egg mass on wound

21 days

Development from egg through three larval stages in the wound

The screwworm larvae (L2 y L3), drill and consume the living tissue enlarging the wound

Fully developed L-3 larva drops to ground and burrows into soil

Develops into pupa and emerges as a young adult

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About Us

About COPEG

A multidisciplinary group of professionals in subject of prevention of Screwworm (SW) works to massively produce SW flies and release them in the field, while ground epidemiological surveillance is carried out to guarantee the maintenance of the Permanent Prevention Biological Barrier

OUR STATISTICS

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Aerial Dispersal
Until December 4th

93,161,195 M

Pupae per Week
Until December 4th

105

Honduras cases
Until December 4th

6,436

Nicaragua cases
Until December 4th

11,627

Costa Rica cases
Until December 4th

22,611

Panama cases
Until December 4th

32

Guatemala cases
Until December 4th

2

Mexico cases
Until December 4th

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