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.

Another Trump achievement

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

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

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

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.

https://www.salon.com/2025/04/28/we-once-rid-the-us-of-this-nasty-parasite-now-it-could-be-coming-back/

Thanks DOGE!!!!

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.

[Sarcasm] Just take some vitamin A and you will be fine

https://youtu.be/zxq60I5RSW8

Kurgesaght

Time to stock up on more ivermectin 🕺

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

Good job Texas and maga, actual brainworm time

RFK grabs the grandkids and heads to Texas.

See!!! If only we would have listened to the magnificent MAGA leader Trump and built the wall that Mexico would have paid for! It would have prevented the Mexican screwworm from illegally crossing the border and hurting REAL Americans^TM^!

/s because this is probably what MAGA believes.

I usually rather like Ars, but there's something very weird and silly about applying the idea of borders, especially non natural ones, to flies.

"Your puny human constructs are nothing to me, flesh bags."

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

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.

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

Bird flu, screwworm monitoring among foreign aid programs killed by Trump

The FAO received stop work orders for the programs in late January [2025], which were followed up by termination orders around a month later, a person familiar with the situation said.

The stop work orders went out just days before the United States ended a temporary suspension of cattle imports from Mexico and as officials were working to implement protocols to prevent the spread of New World Screwworm to U.S. herds.

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

Aw. And here I thought Donvict's wall - that Mexico was going to pay for, pinky-swear promise - was going to keep out all the invaders!?

Build the fucking wall!!!