New World Screwworm and Your Records: What Ambulatory Equine Practices Are Being Asked to Produce
What ambulatory equine practices are being asked to produce for New World screwworm: CVIs, movement permits, wound documentation, and field record capture.
What Changed, and When
On June 3, 2026, USDA confirmed New World screwworm in a calf in Zavala County, Texas — the first domestic detection in roughly sixty years. AAEP alerted equine practitioners the following day, states have since set their own movement conditions, and USDA APHIS maintains the authoritative current-status page.
The Four Kinds of Paperwork in Play
Certificates of veterinary inspection with antiparasitic treatment statements, movement permits and pre-entry conditions, wound and case documentation with dated findings and images, and cross-border movement paperwork. Which apply depends on where you are, where the horse is going, and what the receiving state and event require.
Where Field Capture Actually Breaks
Four failure points recur in ambulatory practice: no signal at the farm, notes reconstructed after hours, wound photos stranded on a personal phone, and treatment attestation detail — product, dose, date — eroding between the barn and the desk.
How StableTrack Handles Field Capture
Offline mode caches patients, charts, and the calendar per device so records are created at the farm without a connection. AI voice transcription lets the veterinarian dictate findings at the horse, photographs attach to the case with AI extraction under per-field review, and Barn Operations records one service entry across every horse at a facility.