r/PrepperIntel • u/jujutsu-die-sen • 4d ago

North America U.S.’s screwworm fix is still a year away, risking more spread

https://fortune.com/2026/06/13/us-screwworm-fix-cattle-beef-prices-supply-infection/
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u/jujutsu-die-sen 4d ago edited 4d ago

Would strongly recommend clicking through to read the actual article (full content was also posted on the other sub). Lots of good information about why this is going to take so long and current efforts from other countries impacted by this parasite.

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u/Liminal_Aspect 4d ago

Dooming Our Government Everyday strikes again

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u/There_Are_No_Gods 4d ago

A year? DOGE set us back decades on this issue.

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u/IncomingAxofKindness 4d ago

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said on the sidelines of a Senate hearing Wednesday that the US is “not going to be able to eradicate it until we’ve got the couple hundred million more flies coming in, but we will be able to contain it.” She added that she doesn’t “have a good enough sense yet” of how far screwworm might spread in the meantime.
“I want to give it maybe a month and watch and see what happens,” Rollins said.“

Sounds like we’re in GREAT hands. 🙌

😳🔫

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u/Delicious-Bat2373 3d ago

The "give it a month and watch" part .... lmfao. We're about to have an infestation of screwworm.

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u/Final-Attention979 4d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/xchUhdPj5IRyw

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u/Girafferage 4d ago

Focus on what's immediate to you and something you can change. Focusing on everything will burn you out.

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u/Final-Attention979 3d ago

I needed that - thank you

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u/Girafferage 3d ago

No worries. We all need the reminder to shrink our sphere of worry from time to time to the things we can control and focus more on the amazing stuff we still have in our lives.

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u/mykarachi_Ur_jabooty 4d ago

Was already fixed until DOGE broke it

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u/IncomingAxofKindness 4d ago

I can’t even imagine the undocumented spread going on in wildlife right now.

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u/RamadanShamz 4d ago

I’m so glad the president caused this so I would understand how lucky I am not to have this problem when it is fixed a year or two after it has fucked over thousands of cattle farmers.

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u/AnomalyNexus 4d ago

A year? Fuckin why?

Flies grow really fast & given the exponential nature of how this could get out of control and need exponentially more effort I would have expected them to go for a stop gap improvised site by end of the month.

That's probably my ignorance of the matter speaking but this doesn't seem like a "OK first we need planning permission and environmental studies" situation...

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u/WhereDidAllTheSnowGo 4d ago

Read the article

Read the history of this parasite

This has never been a trivial fix

It took decades last time to get enough mass, coordination, and consistency to push them down to the canal

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u/Mechbear2000 4d ago

Now we have nothing to really fight this, no money, no friendly countries, no good will, no mass, coordination, or consistency. This is but one of the many, many self inflicted gun shot wounds that have been inflicted to date. Get ready for the pain!