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Flesh-eating screwworms feast on humans in Mexico; human cases top 500

10 pointsby Eloisssssstoday at 1:25 AM1 commentview on HN

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ricardobeattoday at 3:01 AM

The article mentions that a breach of the Darien Gap in 2022 is where all of this started.

Sterile mosquito drops were stopped due to the pandemic, plus over 250k migrants crossing the gap contributed to the breakdown of a biological barrier. Pretty wild to think of the long term consequences.