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Screwworms have breached the U.S.-maintained barrier in Panama
- snowwrestler 1y agoMore on the screwworm barrier and how it was established. This is one of my favorite “magazine style” feature stories. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...
- inverted_flag 1y agoThe article doesn’t mention why they’ve been creeping northward since 2022.
- hulitu 1y ago> The article doesn’t mention why they’ve been creeping northward since 2022. American dream. They search for a better life. /s
- Ancalagon 1y agoWatched video of the man getting the screwworms in his nose removed. Please, dear god, do not cut the funding of that program preventing the spread of these northwards.
- treetalker 1y agoThese screwworms, they're very bad worms, they're invading, they're crossing the borders illegally and they're right there in Panama! And they're eating the flesh, they're eating the organs, they're eating the tissues of the people that live there.
- cozzyd 1y agoThey even ate RFK jr's brain!
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