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America's 'Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Screw Worms'
Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:11:30
Publish Date: 2020-07-22 08:00:05
Description: Sarah Zhang wrote about it for the Atlantic: a decades-long scientific operation in Central America that keeps flesh-eating screw worms effectively eradicated from every country north of Panama. Sarah tells the story of the science behind the effort, and the man who came up with it.

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