This is huge news! Particularly for those of us who get sunburned just by sitting in the shade.
obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨
1/ Five cases of New World screwworm have now been confirmed in the U.S., Texas has declared an emergency, and Canada immediately restricted livestock imports. Most people had never heard of screwworm until last week (or maybe just now). That's because we eradicated it from the U.S. in 1966.🧵
people are mad about this, and justifiably so, but also worth remembering this eating up trump's last reconciliation bill (with nothing else of substance) is due to dems maneuvering better than any minority party has a right to
Screwworm eradication was a parasitology moonshot. It was huge, ambitious, expensive, and required extraordinary international cooperation. It is one of the greatest technological marvels nobody’s heard of outside livestock circles and a select group of weirdos, of which I’m one.