World creeps closer to eradicating human Guinea worm cases, with just 10 last year: Carter Center
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The Carter Center says there were only 10 reported cases of Guinea worm infections confined to three countries in 2025
  • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    6 hours ago

    They said that 15 years ago too. Bill Gates was too busy bailing out monsanto and advocating for the systematic poisoning of watersheds with pesticides under false arguments, evangelizing for geo engineering, spraying aerosols en masse in the upper atmosphere to blot out the sun, (because he’s so smart he knows exactly how that’s going to play out,) and fucking children with Epstein to finish the job on Guinea worms.

    • GorGor@startrek.websiteEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      we are seeing a resurgence of New World Screwworms. We eradicated it in the US in 1966, however, we have since seen a resurgence. Basically we used sterile males to make sure no new worms would be born in the US but thats a big border, so we worked with Mexico and other north and Central American countries to push it down past panama. Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them? and kill funding. So now we are going to have to spend a shitload more money to defend our wide ass border, rather than a fraction of the cost defending a natural border.

      • SanctimoniousApe@piefed.socialEnglish
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        20 hours ago

        Unfortunately when republicans find out we are spending money fighting disease in other countries, they think why help them?

        That’s the problem - they don’t think, but instead react according to their lifelong programming from bullying. They’ve been trained by their masters since childhood not to reason anything out beyond the shortest path to one of a set of predefined conclusions. It’s so instinctive by the time they’re adults (teens, really) that they have absolutely no clue it’s what they’re actually doing deep down.