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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week

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Immunity and infectionInfectious diseasePublic health and policy

An explanation of how the United States uses sterile insect technique to control and eradicate flesh-eating screwworm populations in Central America.

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What people say. Recommended as an informative explanation of the sterile insect technique used to control screwworm parasites and protect public health.

colechristensenin Hacker News • Recommends

On “Mexico to US livestock trade halted due to screwworm spread”

Here's a video describing the system that fell apart which had been working for a long time to keep these flies out of north america link to this video
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positr0nin Hacker News • Mentions

On “The Ultra-Selfish Gene”

Wow bummer, do you have a good link about that? Screw worms are controlled very successfully this way, although they are sterilized via radiation not genetic modification. I wonder if that makes a difference. Sorry to ask you for a link and use a YouTube video as my source but it's the best I got right now: link to this video
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anitilin Hacker News • Mentions

On “Egypt declared malaria-free after 100-year effort”

I believe now they use sterile mosquito larva to achieve the same now 0, though it's from a youtube video so I'm not sure how much to trust it. 0 link to this video
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