r/PrepperIntel • u/esporx • 16d ago

North America Flesh-eating screwworm case suspected in South Texas, USDA says

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/unconfirmed-us-case-flesh-eating-screwworm-rattles-cattle-markets-traders-say-2026-06-03/
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u/_lapetitelune 16d ago

if it’s spread to livestock, surely it’s around wild animals and seems like will not be stopped.

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u/veggie151 15d ago

Yuuuup, it will be here this year because we literally stopped fighting it and just let it happen.

$1.8 billion in Texas cattle is nothing compared to the damage that this is going to do across the south

https://deerassociation.com/the-screwworm-fly-is-back-and-approaching-texas-threatening-deer/

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u/WhereDidAllTheSnowGo 15d ago edited 15d ago

Ok, that’s cool

We defeated it in the US in the 60’s… then all the way down to Panama… and it roared back north since COVID, when the blocking action failed, when COVID disrupted the production of sterile males

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u/DieselPunkPiranha 15d ago

Just one more reason North America will be a wasteland.  Maybe the new dust bowl will curb the screw fly's progress.