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I had to look up the difference between New World screwworms and Old World. The only difference is whether its east or west hemisphere.

Goats almost always have them. They're also called barber pole worms. I've never heard they went through their skin from flies--its always eating them in the pasture, and we don't have a problem with flies. We clean the barns at least once a day, sometimes twice, and worm the goats twice a year. The main problem is that they make the animal anemic. We've worked with a leading parasitologist here to get our's under control because he wanted to use them in a study.

You'd have to wait a certain amount of time after worming to slaughter. I don't know--maybe Mexican cattle never see a pasture but If they were spraying a pasture, they'd have to wait a period of time to put cattle back on it.