# Missouri probes false screwworm press release **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 8, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324 "2025-06-08T10:19:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Love\_Rhombus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/love_rhombus/32/10694_2.png) [@Love\_Rhombus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Love_Rhombus)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 10:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/1 "2025-06-08T10:19:39Z")
I think it’s pretty obvious that this was some kind of stock-manipulation scheme. Literally fake news! It’s always scary that a single piece of false information can have such a big impact. [https://www.reuters.com/world/us/missouri-probes-false-report-about-screwworm-pest-that-hurt-us-cattle-prices-2025-06-06/](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/missouri-probes-false-report-about-screwworm-pest-that-hurt-us-cattle-prices-2025-06-06/) ---
**Author:** ![penultima\_thule](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/penultima_thule/32/3833_2.png) [@penultima\_thule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/penultima_thule)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/2 "2025-06-08T11:02:42Z")
> [@](#): > > State officials want to determine “if this was an act with malicious intent to cause panic in agricultural markets,” the department added. Like, you know, launching a tariff war on agricultural products, maybe? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/3 "2025-06-08T14:37:17Z")
A Houston radio station used to run a Saturday program aimed at farmers and ranchers, in which participants would reminisce about old-time happenings, interspersed with cowboy songs about life on the range. At least one time they ran a piece on cattle screwworm infestations, which I now find [were eradicated back in the 1960s](https://agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2025/05/20/texas-am-agrilife-announces-new-world-screwworm-fact-sheet/) in Texas and the lower U.S. south. Hopefully we won’t have to release a whole mess of irradiated screwworm flies again. ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 6:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/4 "2025-06-08T18:57:45Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > irradiated screwworm flies Band name! ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/5 "2025-06-08T19:29:16Z")
I was doing archeology work in NM in 1978 when a small plane dropped a box from a couple of hundred feet. It was labeled USDA(or something similar, don’t really recall) and it contained irradiated screw worm flies. I guess that is how they were distributed. ---
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [June 8, 2025, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/6 "2025-06-08T20:10:29Z")
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**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2025, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/missouri-probes-false-screwworm-press-release/1019324/7 "2025-06-09T01:56:12Z")
Coincidentally, I read this (long, detailed) article around a week ago. > **[The US could get screwed on screwworm](https://www.salon.com/2025/04/28/we-once-rid-the-us-of-this-nasty-parasite-now-it-could-be-coming-back/)** > > For years, a multi-country effort kept screwworm at bay. The US picking fights with Mexico isn't helping