inimzi@piefed.social to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago'Devastating' Flesh-Eating Parasite Is Spreading Toward The US, CDC Warnswww.sciencealert.comexternal-linkmessage-square31linkfedilinkarrow-up1183arrow-down13
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minus-squarebrvslvrnst@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up99·4 months agoWe’d been keeping them at bay for decades at the isthmus, if memory serves? Then a bunch of, ahem, “budget cuts” prevented keeping it up and they spread like wildfire Edit: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
minus-squarewonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54·4 months agoYeah, DOGE was like “What is this? These stupid liberals are farming nuclear parasites! That must be fraud, waste, and abuse. Let’s cut its funding.”
We’d been keeping them at bay for decades at the isthmus, if memory serves? Then a bunch of, ahem, “budget cuts” prevented keeping it up and they spread like wildfire
Edit: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
Yeah, DOGE was like “What is this? These stupid liberals are farming nuclear parasites! That must be fraud, waste, and abuse. Let’s cut its funding.”