'Devastating' Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Spreading Toward The US, CDC Warns
https://www.sciencealert.com/devastating-flesh-eating-parasite-is-spreading-toward-the-us-cdc-warns
https://www.sciencealert.com/devastating-flesh-eating-parasite-is-spreading-toward-the-us-cdc-warns
32 Comments
bravesilvernest@lemmy.ml · 100 pts · 214d
We'd been keeping them at bay for decades at the isthmus, if memory serves? Then a bunch of, ahem, "budget cuts" prevented keeping it up and they spread like wildfire
Edit: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 214d
Yeah, DOGE was like "What is this? These stupid liberals are farming nuclear parasites! That must be fraud, waste, and abuse. Let's cut its funding."
RobotToaster@mander.xyz · 82 pts · 214d
Ironically one of the drugs that prevents this is ivermectin.
TheGoldenV@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 214d
Bet you a fiver that since it’s actually for that purpose the MAGAts fight against it.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 22 pts · 214d
"It's a liberal plot to use up all the ivermectin before bird flu breaks out! Which is... uh... another liberal plot. But that's beside the point!"
TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 214d
"Godang Biden bringin' dem Kung Flu over 'ere wif dem godang Libtard policies. Now dem Maxicans fighting our ICE heroes with some godang flesh eating wurms. BARB!! Bring me ma godang UV enema and I'll fry this suckers just like I did with der godang CHY-NAH virus! No lube cuz mama didn' raise no godang bitch and I kinda like the way it tears my asshole a lil."
fartographer@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 214d
As a Texan, this was very easy to read
SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social · 7 pts · 214d
Until they're affected.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip · 9 pts · 214d
Nah they willing self administered that neurotoxin instead of getting a simple vaccine. We've been through this already. They're against anything they're told is good for them.
murmelade@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 214d
murmelade@lemmy.ml · 0 pts · 214d
9point6@lemmy.world · 46 pts · 214d
Ah, so the worm in RFK's head has been playing the long game
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 214d
Maybe he'll let its friends move in and finish the job.
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 212d
Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club · 33 pts · 214d
It's the screwworm.
givesomefucks@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 214d
Screwworms, which are a fly larva and incredibly painful...
zabadoh@ani.social · 28 pts · 214d
Cattle ranchers, have the day you voted for...
TIN@feddit.uk · 26 pts · 214d
The CDC still exist?
Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works · 16 pts · 214d
Rebranded as “Center for Disease Creation”.
engywook@programming.dev · 9 pts · 214d
One of those, "Everyone's fired. Oh wait, shit, come back to work!", situations that seem to be gaining in popularity recently
FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 214d
The don't need the CDC, just tell ICE they are illegals.
bagsy@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 214d
So wierd that flesh eating parasite is the least troubling headline today.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 214d
not for me...
Flesh eating worms! Coming to a neighbouring country near you soon!
Thedogdrinkscoffee@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 214d
Ya see, Trump is woke and is waging a war on cattle farming as a secret agent of the Vegans and Climate activists. Cattle methane emissions are going way down and diets will have less meat.
Sims@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 214d
Damn, I got it all wrong ! Thanks anyway :-/
Deceptichum@quokk.au · 10 pts · 214d
MummifiedClient5000@feddit.dk · 7 pts · 214d
Is it weird that I'm cheering for a flesh-eating parasite?
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 214d
Don't worry, it's just texas 🤷♀️ the cowboys can handle it with their guns, I guess /s
Blackmist@feddit.uk · 5 pts · 214d
Oh boy, and you've got RFK Jr on the case.
Sims@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 214d
They may already have drilled into the brains of US plutocracy/leadership class ! Please keep an eye on any odd behavior from them lately..
Paranoidfactoid@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 214d
notso@feddit.org · 3 pts · 214d
"We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful coexistence!"
https://youtu.be/awLZTy9OoN0
billwashere@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 214d
I hear those pair nicely with the brain eating ones.
Abundance114@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 214d
LLM warning for those who are triggerable.
Kind and of scary, just wake up one day and feel something nomming away inside your eyelid.
Little8Lost@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 214d
Oh no