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Not to Alarm Anyone, but Flesh-Eating Screwworms Have Entered the US


The USDA this week confirmed the first known infection of the carnivorous fly larva, which feast on the flesh of living mammals, after the United States eradicated the nightmare bugs in the 1960s.

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