Unfortunately, the emergency response team was fired in February.
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I honestly didn't think we had a CDC anymore
It’s just one guy with a bucket of horse paste and unpasteurized milk.
The horse paste is dewormer right. So it has to work /s
Ironically, It does work in this case. Ivermectin is an antiparasitic, not just a dewormer. It kills screwworm larvae and is being authorized as a treatment for real here.
Just another "what are the writers going to think of next" element to throw into this crazy timeline.
it still exist, so rfk jr can peddle pseudoscience/alternative care to children, whom he has an obsession with.
The name "screwworm" is really offensive. He's a member of the Kennedy family, after all.
oh now it's emergency, not when the working containment plan was shitcanned and failed shortly after
Measles are back, screw worm is back, just like the conservatives promised, we're back to how things were in the 1950s
We still have a CDC?
Yes, but they now serve fried chicken.
Human infestations are rare
Yeah, because we had this shit under control. Human infections were much more common before screwworm was being tracked, the US was releasing sterile flies, and the US realized that flies don’t give a shit about your borders, so you need to treat all of North America.
This was preventable, but US healthcare is only reactionary.
Know what'll fix this? More tariffs
Has RFKjr told the CDC that they need to promote Ivermectin as a treatment for screwworms?
Oh no, what are we going to do with the consequences of our choices? Screw it...
man this is so annoying. actions like these there is no getting back to where we were. Stopping the vaccinations down south is a genie we can't get back into the bottle.
Welcome new person! The downvotes your comment is getting is likely bc you left off the /s - we've become so used to dealing with right-wing sources that would say such a comment unironically that most of us here on the Threadiverse no longer offer the benefit of the doubt and instead treat it at face value by default. You'll get more traction if you remember to include it!:-)
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