The screwworm is going to make the mad cow crisis look like children’s play (and I saw how serious it was while living in the UK in the 1990s).
This is an international public health issue and timely information about it is an essential public good. This administration doesn’t do public goods alas.
Silvia Secchi
Canada to limit livestock imports from Texas over flesh-eating screwworm
A calf at a ranch in Texas tested positive on Wednesday for the flesh-eating parasite, the first case confirmed in Texas since 1966.
