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?