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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Not on my 2025 Bingo card.
Let me guess... so, now we’re going to need masks and mail-in ballots for everyone as an emergency precaution?
Thanks to Trump for the wall. It’ll help.
Gee whiz. I can’t imagine how this could possibly happen.
“...transform small pricks into huge, revolting wounds”
That explains Jerry Nadler
Venezuelans?................
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.
They've been fighting it in the wrong places. The screwworms are in D.C.
> 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.
Interesting. Thanks for posting. LOL! Bill Clinton too.
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...
...I must say.
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