Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S

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brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It was stuck in South America, and eradicated from North America, with the Darian Gap as the barrier IIRC.

But it’s been spreading north since like 2023. There’s been a kind of inescapable dread that it would come to the US eventually, but it happened faster than was expected.

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