• Reading Levels 3 - 5
Geography | Relationships and health | Form Time

What can protect us from flesh-eating bugs?

A war has been raging for decades in the jungles of Panama, as we fight one of the most terrifying parasites on Earth, the New World screwworm fly, or Cochliomyia hominivorax. It is so relentless that our best defence is to drop 100 million radiation-blasted, flesh-eating flies from the sky — every week.

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