How the US was left exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm, years into the outbreak
Verified: 2 outlets in 2 countries have reported this story since Nov 9.
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, Nov 9 - For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America’s cattle. That controls the pest because sterile males mate with wild females – whose eggs then fail to hatch.
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Two or more outlets reported this story and its reliability score reached 65%, so WorldPulse marks it verified. That means more than one outlet says so, not that it is proven true.
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[Claude] Report 2 is a longer explainer on the same screwworm outbreak and US exposure as Report 1, with no conflicting facts.
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