🚨🇺🇸 Flesh-eating screwworm detected in the US for the first time since 1966.
A 3-week-old calf in La Pryor, Texas, just 30 miles from the Mexican border, is the first confirmed case.
This parasite burrows through living flesh. Females lay eggs in open wounds. If untreated, it kills the host.
The USDA is now establishing a 20km quarantine zone and preparing to release millions of sterile flies to contain the spread.
This has been advancing through Central America and Mexico for over a year. Everyone saw it coming.
Now it's here. And beef prices are about to feel it.
Screwworms were once a serious problem in Texas, until they were eradicated.
@Michael_Yon warned Bret Weinstein to watch out for the flesh-eating maggot making a return to the US when they were in Panama.
What shows up in Bret's newsfeed shortly after returning?
"A screwworm problem emerging in the United States, just as you had predicted."
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Dear @WhiteHouse, my name is Rodney Smith Jr., founder of Raising Men & Women Lawn Care Service in Huntsville, Alabama. Through our 50 Yard Challenge, over 6,000 kids across the country have signed up to mow free lawns for the elderly, disabled, veterans, active-duty military, first responders, and single parents. With America celebrating its 250th birthday this year and me also being born on July 4th, I wanted to humbly ask if a few kids from our program and myself could travel to Washington, D.C. to help mow the White House lawn for this historic celebration.
More than anything, I want these kids to see how a simple act of service something as ordinary as mowing a lawn for someone in need can lead to extraordinary places. What better lesson in community service than showing them that helping others can take them all the way to our nation’s capital? I’d also love to bring my American flag-themed mower in hopes that the President might sign it, so I can later auction it off and donate 100% of the proceeds to a nonprofit supporting veterans. It would be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to highlight the importance of service, patriotism, and the impact young people can have when they choose to make a difference. 🇺🇸
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