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>The eradication program works by offering cash rewards for reporting cases in areas where the worm is present. I wonder how they prevented a cobra effect[0] h
by rozab 8mo ago
>The eradication program works by offering cash rewards for reporting cases in areas where the worm is present.
I wonder how they prevented a cobra effect[0] here? Clearly they did avoid it since there were so few human cases. Or maybe some of the animal cases reflect this?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_Effect
- rincebrain 8mo agoI would assume the amount they paid is "valuable, but not 'disabled by worm for the prize' valuable", or it's just that hard to find the larvae now. There's also probably a part where if someone was caught having released it in their area, they would probably be found dead in a ditch for inflicting that on people.