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The Trump admin cancelled over 5,000 grants aimed at monitoring and containing the screw worm, now they are in the US again. They did the same for Ebola prevention and containment, but it hasn’t come to the US, yet.

Because the operation was in Panama it was "giving money to dark skinned foreigners" by people who don't understand disease, agriculture, economics, geography or how to look up what they were cutting actually did

Guinea Worm has hopefully already been made extinct, so, yes. Besides, the screwworm has all of South America to ravage, at least for now.

It's cousin, the red-horned screwUworm, has been brain feasting unchecked here for 30+ years.

Great headline btw

We're in the clutches of malevolent organisms. Also, apparently, screwworms.

They are the screwworms, the cattle are us.

wow, if only a Canadian Woman with receipts had been screaming to the heavens about the inevitability of #Healthcare #exortionist #racists cutting #funding to preventative programs of a #BiblicalPlague the #ScrewWorm hashtag was a lonely place to be populating posts during #BigBalls reign

Palantir gaining deeper data access to US agricultural systems during a crisis response. Disease outbreaks typically accelerate government surveillance and data contracts. As we have our first case of screw worm in TX in 50 years.

The flesh eating worm should be the GOP mascot

Technically she is correct. They are not close to the border they are well past it.

This is bad for the economy but I'm also sad for these cows. Poor buddies. I hope we can stop this.