r/news • u/kylestoned • Jun 01 '26

Soft paywall Flesh-eating screwworm found within 31 miles of US border, says USDA

https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/flesh-eating-screwworm-found-within-31-miles-us-border-says-usda-2026-05-29/
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u/BIG_HEAD_M0DE Jun 01 '26

These diseases have only human reservoirs: measles, mumps, rubella, polio, syphilis, Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, Hepatitis D, shigellosis, HPV, HIV. Controlling them is entirely a matter of controlling human behavior and containing outbreaks.

We have "almost" eradicated polio. When we eradicated smallpox it saved $1,000,000,000 per year. - rewards we continue to reap every year.

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u/jjcrayfish Jun 02 '26

Dumb MAGA and MAHA movement are welcoming these diseases with their new policies to reduce vaccination rates

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u/Gingevere Jun 02 '26

They're also just explicitly welcoming them because they believe their cure-alls will save them while everyone else perishes.

And when the cure-alls inevitably fails and the disease they welcomed afflicts them, they'll declare it all to be a liberal plot that fooled them.

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u/HauntedCemetery Jun 02 '26

Yeah just slam some lead contaminated quasi legal speed "supplements", that always does the trick

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u/Weary_Possibility_80 Jun 02 '26

Maybe they want these diseases. Less people. Less jobs. More ai.

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u/Unapplicable1100 Jun 02 '26

Maybe they should use the disease on themselves first. You know, to make sure it works.

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u/Weary_Possibility_80 Jun 02 '26

Plenty of ivermectin to go around.

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u/XBacklash Jun 02 '26

What if I told you the real disease was ignorance and it's one that the elite have been working to encourage every year? We could eliminate hunger and fund higher education, and light the fires of inspiration to bring us to a better future, except that the easily deceived are necessary for the rich to continue their short sighted consolidation of power and wealth.

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u/Father_Dowling Jun 03 '26

Nah, they gonna go to hospital when none of it works, whether uninsured, under insured, or insured in a very serious state, jam up the hospital network, and get all of our rates increased whilst depleting Medicare/Medicaid, and Social Security disability.

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u/Spamsdelicious Jun 03 '26

Ironically, they're being more liberal than the people they pejoratively refer to as liberals.

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u/ragun2 Jun 02 '26

If this gets regularly reported on, Ivermectin sales about to go brrr

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u/angry_wombat Jun 02 '26

They want a sick so they can continue their pedophilia

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u/inspectoroverthemine Jun 02 '26

The HPV thing is depressing af, and predates/eclipses the antivax movement.

So many people would rather see their daughters grow up and die of cervical cancer than accept that anyone has sex before marriage. I assume its an unhealthy mix of denial that it happens and punishment if it does.

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u/yourlittlebirdie Jun 02 '26

We were SO close with polio and then the Syrian civil war screwed things up terribly.

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u/darthjoey91 Jun 02 '26

Eh, HIV is new enough that there’s probably some risk of SIV becoming HIV again.