Ik denk dat dit verhaal toch ook wel wat genuanceerder is. Akkoord ongelukkige uitspraak maar het echte verhaal is dat de migratie caravans vanuit diep zuid amerika naar mexico de schroefworm dichter gebracht hebben naar mexico en dat nu de koeien aan de grens met amerika ook besmet zijn waardoor de
import uit mexico is stilgelegd.
https://www.wired.com/story/a-parasite-that-eats-cattle-alive-is-creeping-north-toward-the-us/
But conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Mexican ranchers warn that the illegal cattle trade will be the real gateway for the disease to enter North America.
Prior to the closure of its border with the US, Mexico’s National Confederation of Livestock Organizations had called on the government to clamp down on cattle smuggling across Mexico’s southern border. The risk from the parasite is great, and if it becomes established again, the cost of eliminating it in Mexico would be high. Disruption of trade with the US was also be highly costly. In 2023 alone, Mexico’s exports of live cattle and beef to the US were worth $3 billion.
Het beste wat je kan doen als je zo een zot verhaal tegenkomt op twitter of reddit is even te zoeken in google maar de datum aanpassen zodat je zowiezo de recente clickbait titels er al uit filtert. Je leert er vaak meer van dan twitter info van personen met volgende in hun bio
"Proud Democrat | Professional MAGA hunter | I have TDS". Maar die scott bessent lijkt me verbaal nu ook niet sterk als hij zelfs op fox news stotterend het niet duidelijk kan uitleggen...
Dit jaar is er nog een studie hierover uitgekomen (nog niet peer reviewed)
https://www.researchgate.net/public...ues_to_destroy_protected_areas_in_Mesoamerica
"Between 2001-2022, Panama experienced sporadic screwworm cases (Maxwell et al. 2017; Zaldivar-Gomez et al. 2025); however, the parasite reemerged in this country in 2023 (De Escobar 2023; WOAH 2023). Potential factors facilitating this reemergence include SIT failure (Maxwell et al. 2017), operational challenges to produce and release sterile male flies (WOAH 2024), climate change (Gutierrez & Ponti 2014), and migration of half a million people in 2023 alone, and potentially domestic animals, from South to Central America across the Darien gap, (Maxwell et al. 2017; United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees & International
Organization for Migration 2023; COPEG 2024). From Panama, the screwworm rapidly spread northwards, reemerging throughout Central America (Zaldivar-Gomez et al. 2025) and reaching Mexico by late 2024 (WOAH 2024b). Movement of domestic livestock, historically a primary driver of screwworm propagation (Novy 1991; Lindquist et al. 1992; Reichard 1999; Vargas-Terán et al. 2021), is linked to the current reemergence (Zaldivar-Gomez et al. 2025). Indeed, initial detection in Honduras and Mexico occurred in illegally imported horses and cattle (WOAH 2024a, 2024b).
Well-documented routes for illegal cattle trafficking run from Nicaragua through Honduras and Guatemala into Mexico, where animals are integrated into the legal trade and even transported onward to the United States (Asmann & Dittmar 2022; InSight Crime 2022; Montoya 2022). Key cross-border points, including Benemérito de las Américas and protected areas, are also known (Soberanes 2018; Dittmar et al. 2022; InSight Crime 2022). Such cattle trafficking favors the spread of parasites and pathogens, as sanitary controls are bypassed (Asmann & Dittmar 2022)."
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