The case of New World screwworm was confirmed in a 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, near the U.S.-Mexico border, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said.
  • Ignotum@lemmy.world
    60·
    2 days ago

    Let me guess, trump cut all funding to the program on his first day?

    Has RFK gone out and explained why having fly worms under your skin is actually important for our health yet?

    • potoooooooo 🥔@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 days ago

      Trump is probably the carrier of the flesh-eating screwworms. I imagine they just flake off him like his orange dandruff.

    • teyrnon@sh.itjust.works
      16·
      2 days ago

      Yesterday someone on another thread said that doge cut funding for a lot of it, if I recall.

      But after reading today, I learned there are also a mexfly, and medfly, mexican and mediteranien flies that infect fruit and vegetables that are also moving north that they also use this sterile (irradiated in these cases,) male releases to control the populations of.

  • hansolo@lemmy.today
    181·
    2 days ago

    “sO iF yOu Go rUn aRoUnD iN tHe fIeLd aNd eAt tHe sCrEwWoRm fIrSt, YoU bEcOme ImMuNe tO tHe sCrEwInG”

    -RFK JR, probably

    Edit: I see your downvote, Dr. Oz.

  • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    Stage three of the brain worm invasion started by RF Kennedy junior, prepare to bow down to your worm overlords murricans.