The case, involving a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador,
“The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low,” [HHS spokesperson Emily G. Hilliard] said.
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins traveled to Texas to announce a five-part plan to combat the screwworm on Aug. 15
This includes plans to breed billions of sterile flies and dump them from the air over southern Texas and Mexico in the hope of stopping the parasite’s spread.
A report from the USDA last year estimated an outbreak of screwworm could cost Texas at least $1.8 billion due to livestock deaths, labor costs and medication.
This includes plans to breed billions of sterile flies and dump them from the air over southern Texas and Mexico in the hope of stopping the parasite’s spread.
Incidentally, this isn’t a new plan, it’s a successful plan that’s been used against Screwworms in South America and eradicated them entirely in some places. It does take constant effort to ensure they don’t come back, and the US has broadly funded this eradication program for years because of the global good it does for relatively little cost comparatively. If Mexico and South America’s livestock is safe, we make money and have food and best of all, the worm doesn’t make it into the US to torture human and animal alike.
I mean, that’s the first paragraph. Do we really need to spell out what gets written in paragraph two, or just go straight to the article from May?
If only we had a program of releasing billions of sterile males in a very narrow strip of land to keep them from coming up here. Oh we did? Trump axed it? Not surprising.
Incidentally, this isn’t a new plan, it’s a successful plan that’s been used against Screwworms in South America and eradicated them entirely in some places. It does take constant effort to ensure they don’t come back, and the US has broadly funded this eradication program for years because of the global good it does for relatively little cost comparatively. If Mexico and South America’s livestock is safe, we make money and have food and best of all, the worm doesn’t make it into the US to torture human and animal alike.
I mean, that’s the first paragraph. Do we really need to spell out what gets written in paragraph two, or just go straight to the article from May?
If only we had a program of releasing billions of sterile males in a very narrow strip of land to keep them from coming up here. Oh we did? Trump axed it? Not surprising.
So ICE brought screw worms to the US. Great.