After a 36-year campaign, cattle fever ticks were finally declared eradicated from the United States in 1943. Today, the only remaining area where these ticks are found is a narrow strip of land along the Texas-Mexico border that has been quarantined since 1938. These cattle are going through a tick treatment bath at an APHIS facility in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McAllen,_Texas" class="extiw" title="en:McAllen, Texas">McAllen</a>, Texas.
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