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silence7@slrpnk.net to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says | With the case confirmed, it is the fly’s first breach of the US-Mexico border.

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Flesh-eating screwworm infection confirmed in South Texas, USDA says | With the case confirmed, it is the fly’s first breach of the US-Mexico border.

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    Thanks DOGE!!!

    • sportsjorts@lemmy.zip
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      This is the answer. May screwworms burrow into Elon’s testicles.

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    texas is the worst state possible to be on the front lines of this. smh

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      Getting what they voted for. Better there than here

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        There’s gonna become here in no time.

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        huh? their response to this outbreak is crucial in whether it stops there or keeps spreading. which do you think will happen?

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          Maybe they will take it seriously since it will affect cattle.

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            The USDA is actually because this shill fuck the bottom line out of the whole meat industry.

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    We can all thank the Sig Heiling feckless loser Elon Musk and his illegal DOGE for this. His ego was so massive that he didn’t realize why the government was breeding flies to contain this absolute horror of a parasite.

    This will continue to spread, and I hope that Cybertruck shaped moron is personally infected so he can suffer the actual consequences of his bottomless hubris for once in his unfortunately persistent life.

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      I’m so tired of this shit. People need to hang for these decisions

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    How neat is it that the screwworm, which was a plague in the 1930s, is back just in time (well, a little early but when the history books are written they’ll zoom out the timeline) for our reenactment of the Great Depression? A little on the nose with history repeating itself, but still interesting. I guess we should be on the lookout for another Dust Bowl too.

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      Here,

      https://www.outdoorlife.com/conservation/soil-moisture-next-dust-bowl/

      Take my confirmation bias doomer porn and have a terrifying rest of your day.

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        Who else is excited for WW3??

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    With the absolute decimation of our scientific divisions in our government don’t expect any help with this.

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    Man to bad we don’t have a solution to this problem that we already know works.

    That would be so awesome to have right now

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    If only we elected that guy who promised to build a wall smdh

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    RFK grabs the grandkids and heads to Texas.

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    Another Trump achievement

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    Man… Sure sucks. Certainly there was some waste, fraud and abuse going on in the gubermint screwworm division, and those people obviously should have been fired because they were doing nothing, and now, completely unrelated, this happens.

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    Protip if you’re squeamish absolutely do not look up photos of what this does to cattle and other fauna. Pure nightmare fuel.

    • CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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      It infects humans too 🙃

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        Yeah but humans can and would do something about it.

        A cow gets a wound, the wound gets infected, and the larva make the wound bigger, probably leading to more even infection - while the cow has no way to deal with that.

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    Aren’t Orange’s borders impenetrable? Where is ICE? 🙃

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      Melted.

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    Time to stock up on more ivermectin 🕺

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      An Ivermectin a day keeps everything away

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        Don’t forget your alpha brain, the ivermectin gets rid of the bad brain worms but that’s only half of the equation, gotta take alpha brain to get the good brain worms in!

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    https://youtu.be/zxq60I5RSW8

    Kurgesaght

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      Kurgesaght

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        • sem@piefed.blahaj.zone
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          I really didn’t try at all Lol

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    It’s like Measles, Ebola, and Hantavirus are all gleefully employing the Epstein strategy on each other.

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