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TERRIFYING: Dangerous Parasite That Eats Animals and Humans Alive Rapidly Marches Toward America With Help from the Mexican Drug Cartels
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/ ^ | Jun. 1, 2025 | Cullen Linebarger

Posted on 06/02/2025 7:42:04 AM PDT by bitt

A dangerous flesh-eating parasite is rapidly marching toward the United States despite several desperate efforts to halt its advance. And one can thank the Mexican drug cartels for this.

As The Atlantic notes, the United States has been fighting an aerial war against the New World screwworm for 70 years. This parasite eats animals alive, including cows, pigs, deer, dogs, and even humans.

The larvae of the parasitic fly harboring the worm rip through flesh and transform small pricks into huge, revolting wounds. Worse, they produce foul-smelling odors resembling sewer gas.

It’s no wonder the worm’s scientific name, C. hominivorax, translates to “man-eater.”

In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an all-out assault to eradicate the screwworm.

Here is how they did it, according to The Atlantic.

Workers raised screwworms in factories, blasted them with radiation until they were sterile, and dropped the sterile adult screwworms by the millions—even hundreds of millions—weekly over the U.S., then farther south in Mexico, and eventually in the rest of North America.

The worm was eradicated from North America and Central America in the 20th century, but things have turned dark.

The outbreak began in Panama, skyrocketing from dozens a year to 1,000, despite ongoing drops of sterile flies. According to the Atlantic, the parasite then began moving northward, at first slowly and then rapidly, by 2024.

As of this month, the parasite has advanced 1,600 miles through eight countries to reach the Mexican States of Oaxaca and Veracruz, just 700 miles away from the Texas border.

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1 posted on 06/02/2025 7:42:04 AM PDT by bitt
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2 posted on 06/02/2025 7:42:19 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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bkmk


3 posted on 06/02/2025 7:44:20 AM PDT by sauropod (Make sure Satan has to climb over a lot of Scripture to get to you. John MacArthur Ne supra crepidam)
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To: bitt
doomed as doomed can be Memes & GIFs - Imgflip

4 posted on 06/02/2025 7:44:36 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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Not on my 2025 Bingo card.


5 posted on 06/02/2025 7:45:39 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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Let me guess... so, now we’re going to need masks and mail-in ballots for everyone as an emergency precaution?


6 posted on 06/02/2025 7:46:51 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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Thanks to Trump for the wall. It’ll help.


7 posted on 06/02/2025 7:46:56 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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Gee whiz. I can’t imagine how this could possibly happen.


8 posted on 06/02/2025 7:48:01 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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“...transform small pricks into huge, revolting wounds”

That explains Jerry Nadler


9 posted on 06/02/2025 7:48:32 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: bitt

Venezuelans?................


10 posted on 06/02/2025 7:50:44 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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I have been wondering for years how soon the screw worm would show up again in the US with all the illegals pouring in.
I remember about 50 years ago a Mexican Migrant labor woman died in Texas with a bad screw worm infection in her nose.


11 posted on 06/02/2025 7:50:50 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar ( )
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12 posted on 06/02/2025 7:51:51 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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"...the USA has been fighting an aerial war against the New World screwworm for 70 years."

They've been fighting it in the wrong places. The screwworms are in D.C.

13 posted on 06/02/2025 7:52:10 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Diversity is our Strength” just doesn’t carry the same message as “Death from Above”)
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> In the 1950s, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched an all-out assault to eradicate the screwworm.

If they were to do that now, some a-holes would take them to court and get an injunction to save the endangered screwworm.


14 posted on 06/02/2025 7:54:59 AM PDT by Flatus I. Maximus (I didn't leave the Democratic Party. It LEFT me, and keeps going further left. )
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Interesting. Thanks for posting. LOL! Bill Clinton too.


15 posted on 06/02/2025 7:55:15 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Based on a query:

Yes, ivermectin is effective against screwworms, particularly for preventing and treating early-stage infestations. It can be used in livestock to prevent screwworm larvae from hatching or to treat wounds where larvae are present.

Well, well, well, another use for that substance that was highly derided during COVID...


16 posted on 06/02/2025 7:57:13 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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Ivermectin.


17 posted on 06/02/2025 7:57:24 AM PDT by Jane Long (Jesus is Lord!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

...I must say.


18 posted on 06/02/2025 7:59:39 AM PDT by RckyRaCoCo (Time to throw them out of the Temple...again)
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19 posted on 06/02/2025 7:59:41 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The best thing about a muzzie civil war is, everyone wins.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
At one time the USA would not have tolerated these banditos on our border or even in Mexico for that matter: IMG-1035
20 posted on 06/02/2025 8:01:27 AM PDT by Phoenix8
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