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and involved a patient who returned from travel to El Salvador,
Screwworm, is that like Meghan Markle or Ghislaine Maxwell?
I wonder if off label Ivermectin would kill this thing?
Here it comes, anal check station at every border...
“I Did That!”
I thought the human screwworm was Gavin Newsom.
This has been a big deal for cattle producers
They are not going to be happy until we quit eating meat...
Anthony Fauci loves little parasites. Hide your pets.
I hate screwworms
hookworms
tapeworms
augerworms
hammerworms
drillworms
pipeworms
punchworms
anvilworms
...
Washington DC has been infected with Human Screwworms forever.
Thanks to Joe.
The screw worm flies were defeated decades ago. Now they are back.
The case, brought in by the Maryland Department of Health and the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
There. Fixed it.
As it is today with the ‘news’, this story is sorely lacking in detail. There is no reporting on how the Maryland resident was infected. We know the vector is a fly. It is attracted to open wounds or mucus membranes and lays a large number of eggs near the wound. The larva hatch in a very short time, crawl to the open wound, and burrow into fresh flesh. It is a worm that feeds on healthy flesh, not like ordinary worms that consume dead flesh, and the wound will grow rapidly larger with time if not quickly and properly treated. Apparently, if the worm is not irradiated from the wound, secondary infections may occur in the body and in some cases even death of the animal. While the resident was in a screwworm infested region, it still would be nice to know how this rare human case of infection occrred.
The New World screwworm fly was the first species upon which the sterile insect technique was tested and then applied in a natural environment, resulting in the control and systematic eradication of this species from the United States, Central America, and parts of the Caribbean beginning in the 1950s.[2] By the early 2000s, it was considered eradicated from North America. However, in 2024 and 2025, the New World screwworm was once again detected in Mexico,[3] leading to renewed efforts to prevent its re-emergence as a threat to agriculture.[4] Meanwhile, the fly is still widespread in tropical and subtropical parts of the Caribbean and South America, so that animals imported from these areas to non-endemic regions must be inspected or treated to prevent the pest’s reintroduction.[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliomyia_hominivorax