Screwworms have breached the U.S.-maintained barrier in Panama

24 snowwrestler 6 5/2/2025, 7:30:46 PM arstechnica.com ↗

Comments (6)

snowwrestler · 1d ago
More on the screwworm barrier and how it was established. This is one of my favorite “magazine style” feature stories.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...

Ancalagon · 1d ago
Watched video of the man getting the screwworms in his nose removed.

Please, dear god, do not cut the funding of that program preventing the spread of these northwards.

inverted_flag · 1d ago
The article doesn’t mention why they’ve been creeping northward since 2022.
hulitu · 14h ago
> The article doesn’t mention why they’ve been creeping northward since 2022.

American dream. They search for a better life. /s

treetalker · 22h ago
These screwworms, they're very bad worms, they're invading, they're crossing the borders illegally and they're right there in Panama! And they're eating the flesh, they're eating the organs, they're eating the tissues of the people that live there.
cozzyd · 22h ago
They even ate RFK jr's brain!