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US plans to fight flesh-eating screwworm outbreak with flies and dogs

The development

The insect, which has been found in America for the first time since 1966, is a growing concern in the southern US

The significance

BBC frames this as significant because of how it shifts the existing landscape around plans, fight, flesh, eating, screwworm.

The context

The arc leading to this moment stretches across multiple prior developments in plans, fight, flesh, eating, screwworm, as BBC has documented.

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The read

Signal Ledger reads this through the lens of plans, fight, flesh, eating, screwworm: The insect, which has been found in America for the first time since 1966, is a growing concern in the southern US.

Source note

BBC reporting: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v9vz1gd76o?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss

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