Comment by svpk
Screwworms have actually broken through the Darrien Gap and hopes of recontaining them are slim.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/screwwor...
Screwworms have actually broken through the Darrien Gap and hopes of recontaining them are slim.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2025/05/screwwor...
I'd say the USDA will handle this, but there has never been less competent leadership at the top so we're probably toast unless someone is brave enough to let rip with a gene drive attack (which I would personally love to see, biotech reactionaries be damned).