Please note: there is a picture of a deer with a grusome wound left by screwworm infection - judging by the size, it’s just slightly smaller than a soccer ball (or football, depending on where you live).
If the image of the dead deer didn’t fuck you over, the article links to a far worse thing:
A YouTube video of a person having 150 of them removed surgecally from their nose.
And DOGE cut the funding to stop the infection Mexico and Panama
I have a rather misanthropic mindset, but I consider area control of screwworms to be something good that our species has done. These parasitoids cause horrific injuries.
RFK Jr. inviting his buddies?
“The only way to build immunity to a screwworm infestation, is to get infested by screwworms”
Do you think republicans will have “screw parties” and infect their babies with screwworms?
Just a look at the photo of the deer was enough to nope out of seeing more
I was about to say I was grateful that human infection by screwworms is low, but then I realized that it will be worse if we lose tons of livestock to them.
Holy fuck.
Just add it to the pile of horrors I guess
We are so fucked…
You could even say we’re screwed
They are just gorgeous though. They look like incredibly well-knapped flint blades.
I wish I was well napped
