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Why the US Drops 14.7 Million Worms On Panama Every Week
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A Half as Interesting explainer on the US program that drops millions of sterile screwworm flies over Panama every week to keep the parasite out of North America.
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Cited in screwworm threads as a short description of the sterile-insect barrier system that worked for decades.
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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 [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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: [VIDEO]
Read original comment ↗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] [VIDEO]
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