Screwworms are coming—and they’re just as horrifying as they sound

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/05/screwworms-are-coming-and-theyre-just-as-horrifying-as-they-sound/

Please note: there is a picture of a deer with a grusome wound left by screwworm infection - judging by the size, it's just slightly smaller than a soccer ball (or football, depending on where you live).

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vegeta@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 1y (1 reply)

RFK Jr. inviting his buddies?

"The only way to build immunity to a screwworm infestation, is to get infested by screwworms"

blakenong@lemmings.world · 10 pts · 1y

Do you think republicans will have “screw parties” and infect their babies with screwworms?

tux@feddit.it · 17 pts · 1y (1 reply)

And DOGE cut the funding to stop the infection Mexico and Panama

EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 1y

I have a rather misanthropic mindset, but I consider area control of screwworms to be something good that our species has done. These parasitoids cause horrific injuries.

TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee · 13 pts · 1y

Holy fuck.

AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y

I was about to say I was grateful that human infection by screwworms is low, but then I realized that it will be worse if we lose tons of livestock to them.

Boddhisatva@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 1y (1 reply)
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ray@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 1y

You could even say we're screwed

db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 1y

Just a look at the photo of the deer was enough to nope out of seeing more

Mannimarco@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 1y

Just add it to the pile of horrors I guess

Gloomy@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 1y

If the image of the dead deer didn't fuck you over, the article links to a far worse thing:

A YouTube video of a person having 150 of them removed surgecally from their nose.

Hegar@fedia.io · 1 pts · 1y (1 reply)

They are just gorgeous though. They look like incredibly well-knapped flint blades.

jewbacca117@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
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