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DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S (mander.xyz)
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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago

It was stuck in South America, and eradicated from North America, with the Darian Gap as the barrier IIRC.

But it’s been spreading north since like 2023. There’s been a kind of inescapable dread that it would come to the US eventually, but it happened faster than was expected.

[-] mrmisses@lemmy.world 6 points 8 hours ago

Because the Republicans ended the program that kept them away

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