Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

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The article mentions that a breach of the Darien Gap in 2022 is where all of this started.

Sterile mosquito drops were stopped due to the pandemic, plus over 250k migrants crossing the gap contributed to the breakdown of a biological barrier. Pretty wild to think of the long term consequences.

The fact that sterile mosquito drops were stopped due to the pandemic, was the cause, together with the fact that after the pandemic no measures were taken to compensate this, even if it was obvious that they are imperatively needed.

There is no relationship between the number of migrants and this.

If there was an increase in smuggling cattle over the Gap, that could have contributed, but the human migrants do not carry the flies.

The article is about humans carrying the fly larvae, we can’t really know, can we? Not only that, but this volume of movement opens up trails; people bring along dogs and other animals that can also be carriers.

When I lived near cattle farming areas, sanitary barriers where both cars and people had to pass through a pool of biocide were common, to kill any eggs being carried in the dirt on the tires and shoes.

Good thing DOGE cut the screwworm program. Don't want to waste money. https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/22636-bird-flu-screwworm...

Mexico is a third world cleptocratracy, still run as an exploitive colony, and shit lkke this, and the terror drug gangs is only part of the systemic disfunction making life hell for a huge number of people there. Keep in mind that much of there industrial and agricultural industries are unregulated, and the whole thing can be taken as an example of what is wanted by the elites in the "civilised first world"

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