The first sign of spread past panama was seen in Nov 2024. Parasites can spread fast and the US/Mexico needed to react fast to the fact that it spread past panama.

In a critical time when monitoring and action were desperately needed, we eliminated the agency that'd do that.

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literalAardvark 6 days ago | parent [-]

It wasn't a critical time, it was late.

If there had been any political will for this things would have been set in motion since 2023, likely even before that when the reports from the scientists working on control started pouring in.

Blaming a few weeks of funding lapse one year into an outbreak in a control project that's been running for decades is absurd.

From a link in this thread: However, since 2023, cases have been increasing in number and spreading north from Panama to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico.

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asacrowflies 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

Late is still a critical time...perhaps more critical.

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cogman10 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Fair point.

The cost to fight this back will definitely exponentially increase.

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tptacek 6 days ago | parent [-]

Ok, but where did you get that Nov '24 date from? You just agreed with a comment that falsified that claim.

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cogman10 6 days ago | parent [-]

An article I read mentioned that Nov '24 is when the flies were spotted in Mexico. I incorrectly assumed that meant that is when they breached the panama boarder.

So I agree with the commenter that falsified my claim because they are correct, the date of breach was earlier and the time to react was then.

	▲	tptacek 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		Gotcha. Thanks! I was just curious.