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Where is the US human screwworm case? What to know about reports
Asheville Citizen Times - North Carolina
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A U.S. patient in Maryland was diagnosed with New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador. The New World screwworm, eradicated from the U.S. in the 1960s, is a parasitic fly whose larvae infest living tissue. A U.S. patient was diagnosed...
We need to move the ship management business from a low-cost model to one that delivers real value: Kristensen, Group CEO, Synergy Marine
ETInfra.com
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August 25, 2025
The global shipping industry is facing multiple pain points with geopolitical tensions, decarbonisation goals etc. How are you, as a ship manager, dealing with these pressure points? Chaos is not a bad thing for our industry. We are in the...
The U.S. confirms its first human case of New World screwworm. What is it?
Public Radio Tulsa - Oklahoma
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August 25, 2025
The U.S. has confirmed its first human case of the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite whose northward creep from South America has put the country's cattle industry on high alert in recent months. The Centers for Disease Control and...
Prowers County Clerk & Recorder’s Office closed Friday, August 22 for training
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 20, 2025
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IICA Executive meets in Peru: livestock, global food security on agenda
Dominica News Online
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August 20, 2025
During the opening ceremony, Ángel Manero Campos, Minister of Agricultural Development and Irrigation of Peru, presented a plaque to IICA Director General, Manuel Otero, on behalf of the Peruvian Government, in recognition of his contributions to...
Fact-checking the Trump administration’s claims about Kilmar Abrego Garcia
Politifact
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August 25, 2025
The Trump administration again detained Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran citizen and Maryland resident whose wrongful deportation case gained national attention at the beginning of the administration’s illegal immigration crackdown....
Inside the Hunt for the $7 Million Talbot-Lago, the World’s Most Beautiful Stolen Car
Robb Report
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August 24, 2025
In recent years, thieves have pulled off elaborate heists of rare, million-dollar collectible cars, sometimes smuggling them out of their country of origin, retrofitting them with fake paperwork, and reselling them on the international market. And...
Trump’s Doomed Venezuela Militarism
The American Conservative - Washington D.C.
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August 26, 2025
The Trump administration’s deployment of more than 4,000 sailors and Marines to the southern Caribbean—reportedly to combat drug cartels—marks a dangerous escalation in its policy toward Venezuela. While President Donald Trump is right to identify...
We need a new theory of democracy — because this version has failed
Salon
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August 24, 2025
According to polling data, 62 percent of Americans favor the government being responsible for the health coverage of all people in the country. Sixty-five percent of Americans polled favored the infrastructure bill passed during Joe Biden’s...
Rare Flesh-Eating Parasite Infects U.S. Traveler In The Nation’s First-Ever Human Case
The Travel
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August 25, 2025
When most travelers pack their bags for a trip, they're focused on sightseeing, food, and making memories – not the possibility of returning home with a rare illness. Unfortunately for some, especially those traveling abroad, the risk is real....
Voices: I watched the police arrest hundreds of peaceful protesters – I fear Britain is on a slippery slope towards authoritarianism
The Independent
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August 14, 2025
Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our...
Brother May I Have Some Rat
Defector
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August 22, 2025
By night, spectral bats leave their roost and swoop through the tree canopy of Costa Rica, wings outstretched as far as three feet wide, in search of prey: unsuspecting mice and rats, birds called motmots, even other bats. Sometimes, after they...
What to know about screwworm amid US human case of flesh-eating parasite
Virgin Islands Free Press
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August 25, 2025
BA;TIMORE — A person in Maryland was recently infected by the flesh-eating New World screwworm after traveling to El Salvador, US health officials confirmed this week. The blowflies primarily affect livestock — human cases are rare. In a screwworm...
‘Wouldn’t It Be Funny if We Tricked a Bunch of People into Going to Church?’
Christianity Today
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August 11, 2025
Earlier this year, several news outlets reported on increasing openness to Christianity among Silicon Valley tech elites. The stories focused on the work of an organization called ACTS 17 Collective, whose name is both a Scriptural reference to...
Meet Our 2025 Keepers of the Earth Fund Grant Partners Defending their Lands Against Extractivism and Protecting Indigenous Knowledge, Rights, and Cultures
Cultural Survival - Massachusetts
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The Keepers of the Earth Fund (KOEF) is proud to announce our 2025 partnerships with Indigenous communities. At Cultural Survival, we value cultivating long-term relationships with our partners. The Keepers of the Earth Fund is an Indigenous-led...
Bridging the Climate Divide: Protecting Marginalized Communities from...
ImpACT International
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The global climate crisis is a defining challenge of our time, one that transcends environmental degradation to amplify existing social inequities. There is conclusive evidence that the burden of climate change disproportionately falls on...
The politics of plenty: why food insecurity persists in a world of abundance
British Medical Journal
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Hashim Hounkpatin1, research doctor, Tinashe Goronga2, research doctor, Sherifath Mama Chabi3, researcher, Aimé Yedenou1, research doctor 1Centre de recherche en reproduction humaine et en démographie, Benin 2Center for Health Equity, Zimbabwe...
Immigration population in US plunges for first time since 1960s amid Trump crackdown
India Blooms
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August 25, 2025
The immigration population in the US, which has been growing for the past 50 years, has declined ever since US President Donald Trump took charge as the President for the second term, a new study has revealed. The Trump administration launched a...
Rare human case of New World screwworm identified in United States after travel from El Salvador
KTBS 3 - Louisiana
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(CNN) — A rare case of travel-related New World screwworm was identified in Maryland in a patient who traveled from El Salvador, a spokesman from the US Department of Health and Human Services said. The US Centers for Disease Control and...
29th Annual Angel Open Golf Tournament winners announced
The Prowers Journal - Colorado
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August 19, 2025
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