An outbreak of the flesh-eating New World screwworm (Cochliomyia hominivorax) has killed seven people and infected at least 1,190 more across Mexico and South America, and now the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention is alerting health workers of its northward spread.
We’d been keeping them at bay for decades at the isthmus, if memory serves? Then a bunch of, ahem, “budget cuts” prevented keeping it up and they spread like wildfire
Edit: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/
Yeah, DOGE was like “What is this? These stupid liberals are farming nuclear parasites! That must be fraud, waste, and abuse. Let’s cut its funding.”