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snowwrestler05/03/20251 replyview on HN

More on the screwworm barrier and how it was established. This is one of my favorite “magazine style” feature stories.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-ea...


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jauntywundrkind05/03/2025

Salon had a lovely article last week, on how deteriorating relationships between US and Mexico is threatening the effective work the US had been doing of creating and spreading sterile male flies that have successfully stopped the Screwworm invasion. https://www.salon.com/2025/04/28/we-once-rid-the-us-of-this-...

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