{"id":107303,"date":"2026-11-09T11:03:50","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=107303"},"modified":"2026-11-09T11:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T03:03:50","slug":"how-the-us-was-left-exposed-to-the-flesh-eating-screwworm-years-into-the-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/?p=107303","title":{"rendered":"How the US was left exposed to the flesh-eating screwworm, years into the outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\/WASHINGTON, Nov 9 &#8211; For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America\u2019s cattle. That controls the pest because sterile males mate with wild females \u2013 whose eggs then fail to hatch.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/world\/how-the-us-was-left-exposed-to-the-flesh-eating-screwworm-years-into-the-outbreak\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MEXICO CITY\/WASHINGTON, Nov 9 &#8211; For decades, planes dropped billions of factory-bred sterile flies to keep the flesh-eating New World screwworm out of North America\u2019s cattle. That controls the pest because sterile males mate with wild females \u2013 whose eggs then fail to hatch. Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-107303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-worldnews","tag-yahoonews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sg-all-in-1.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}