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Elon Musk being personally culpable for the spread of flesh-eating screwworm into the USA is so wild. Even just typing that out feels like describing a golden-age comics plot but no, it's true, he did that.
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@AppleAmps wait is this something i didnt hear abt orr
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@detondev
So, flesh-eating screwworm has recently spread from Central America to Mexico and finally to Texas, which is its first sighting in the States since 1966. Previously it was contained in Panama due to a multi billion dollar effort by the USDA to drop sterile flies that would control population growth. Said control program started to lose its grip during the 2020's but not in a way that insured it would arrive in the states, that *was* until Musk's DOGE massively cut USDA's workforce and budget, which set the stage for it to reach the southern US and thus wreak havoc on the already strained cattle industry.
(https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/screwworms-have-entered-the-us)
So, flesh-eating screwworm has recently spread from Central America to Mexico and finally to Texas, which is its first sighting in the States since 1966. Previously it was contained in Panama due to a multi billion dollar effort by the USDA to drop sterile flies that would control population growth. Said control program started to lose its grip during the 2020's but not in a way that insured it would arrive in the states, that *was* until Musk's DOGE massively cut USDA's workforce and budget, which set the stage for it to reach the southern US and thus wreak havoc on the already strained cattle industry.
(https://www.morningbrew.com/stories/screwworms-have-entered-the-us)
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