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Avian Flu Wiped Out Poultry. Now the Screwworm Is Coming for Beef.
The New York Times ^ | July 28, 2025, 5:01 a.m. ET | Pooja Salhotra

Posted on 07/28/2025 8:41:56 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

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To: Texas Eagle

I read that. The whole article is ignorant so I do not assume that statement is accurate. Call it the Gell-Mann effect.

Define ‘treatment”. We know how to destroy the entire population of screwworms over a period of years. We know how to clean a wound. You need to put a tiny amount of insecticide in to kill microscopic larvae in a gel to keep out more flies.

Define “approved”. Probably the disapprovers are the people who won’t let you treat a suffering cow who hasn’t lost her afterbirth with a small injection of DES because some fool at a feedlot fed it every day to every single animal, and can’t treat a single sick suffering from a bacterial infection with a small injection of antibiotic for the same reason.

We knew how to clean a wound and apply a gelly like medicine containing insecticide. But probably a lot of what used to work is frowned on today. It takes a genuine ahole to not allow treatment of individual suffering animals.


21 posted on 07/28/2025 12:45:48 PM PDT by takebackaustin
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I’m pretty sure Husseincare covers that.


22 posted on 07/28/2025 4:29:16 PM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: takebackaustin

Kerrville TX had a big USDA lab which did research, and the raising of the sterile flies.


23 posted on 07/28/2025 8:03:23 PM PDT by sockmonkey (Conservative. Not a Neocon.)
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