America's 'Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Screw Worms' - podcast episode cover

America's 'Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Screw Worms'

Jul 22, 202012 minTranscript available on Metacast
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Episode 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.

Email the show at shortwave@npr.org.