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inimzi@piefed.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago

'Devastating' Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Spreading Toward The US, CDC Warns

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'Devastating' Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Spreading Toward The US, CDC Warns

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inimzi@piefed.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 months ago
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An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1,190 more across Mexico and South America, and now the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention is alerting health workers of its northward spread.
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  • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    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
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      3 months ago

      Damn, I got it all wrong ! Thanks anyway :-/

  • Abundance114@lemmy.world
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    LLM warning for those who are triggerable.

    Broad Definition of “Wound”: The fly doesn’t need a major injury. It can lay eggs in something as tiny as a tick bite, a mosquito bite, a small scratch, or a shaving cut.

    Natural Openings: The fly will lay eggs in or near the nose, mouth, eyes, ears, and genitals. In these cases, no “wound” is necessary; the larvae hatch and burrow directly into the moist tissue of the orifice.

    Kind and of scary, just wake up one day and feel something nomming away inside your eyelid.

  • Sims@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    They may already have drilled into the brains of US plutocracy/leadership class ! Please keep an eye on any odd behavior from them lately…

    • Paranoid Factoid@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

    • Notso@feddit.org
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      3 months ago

      “We mean you no harm. We seek peaceful coexistence!”

      https://youtu.be/awLZTy9OoN0

  • lumpenproletariat@quokk.au
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    3 months ago

    I thought it was already ruling the us?

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Ah, so the worm in RFK’s head has been playing the long game

    • floofloof@lemmy.ca
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      Maybe he’ll let its friends move in and finish the job.

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      2 months ago

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Screwworms, which are a fly larva and incredibly painful…

  • Little8Lost@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Oh no

  • The Infinite Nematode@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    The CDC still exist?

    • Iamsqueegee@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      Rebranded as “Center for Disease Creation”.

    • engywook@programming.dev
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      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
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      The don’t need the CDC, just tell ICE they are illegals.

  • bagsy@lemmy.world
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    So wierd that flesh eating parasite is the least troubling headline today.

    • Grass@sh.itjust.works
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      3 months ago

      not for me…

      Flesh eating worms! Coming to a neighbouring country near you soon!

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    Cattle ranchers, have the day you voted for…

  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    Don’t worry, it’s just texas 🤷‍♀️ the cowboys can handle it with their guns, I guess /s

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    3 months ago

    I hear those pair nicely with the brain eating ones.

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    3 months ago

    Oh boy, and you’ve got RFK Jr on the case.

  • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club
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    3 months ago

    It’s the screwworm.

  • brvslvrnst@lemmy.ml
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    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

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      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.”

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