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[–] 106 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Unfortunately, the emergency response team was fired in February.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    I honestly didn't think we had a CDC anymore

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  • [–] 57 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    It’s just one guy with a bucket of horse paste and unpasteurized milk.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    The horse paste is dewormer right. So it has to work /s

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 52 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    The name "screwworm" is really offensive. He's a member of the Kennedy family, after all.

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  • [–] 48 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    oh now it's emergency, not when the working containment plan was shitcanned and failed shortly after

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  • [–] 26 points 3 months ago

    Measles are back, screw worm is back, just like the conservatives promised, we're back to how things were in the 1950s

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    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 months ago

    Feed Elon to the worms

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago

    Trump Worms

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    This was preventable, but US healthcare is only reactionary.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Know what'll fix this? More tariffs

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Has RFKjr told the CDC that they need to promote Ivermectin as a treatment for screwworms?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago

    Oh no, what are we going to do with the consequences of our choices? Screw it...

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Didn't DOGE cut the budget to control these things?

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  • [+] -8 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 12 points 3 months ago

    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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