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vegeta@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 months ago

“Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

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“Screwworm is dangerously close”: Flesh-eating parasites just 70 miles from US

arstechnica.com

vegeta@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 6 months ago
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The detection was along a heavily trafficked commercial thoroughfare, USDA says.
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      I literally just spit some drink out my nose when I opened this thread and saw this.

      ~Thank you.~

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        A spit-take a day keeps the brain worm away.

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    The worm is coming from inside the [White] House

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    Federal Fish and wildlife are killing off endangered wolves in new mexico to protect cattle. Sincerely as a person who appreciates the planet we live on I hope cattle ranchers have the life they voted for!

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    Did RFK cough it out? Or does it spread anally? That way tRump would already have it!

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    What is this the new African killer bee scare? They’re tracing it by the mile?

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      You probably don’t have anything to fear, I think 12 people got it in the '72 outbreak, but it can be brutal for livestock.

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      Oh yeah I remember that old horror movie about the killer bees. The Swarm. Scared the crap out of me as a kid.

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        Is that the one where the bees cause a nuclear meltdown in Houston or something?

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          They cause a nuclear explosion even though the power plant should only be able to go into meltdown.

          Edit the scene. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=So8Ut2evqko

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            Holy crap 🤣

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    god: “Ima give it screw shape for the extra fuck you”

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    I’ll take a screw worms over brain worms any day of the week.

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