Morning Digest: Flesh-eating parasite attacks district where GOP governor has stalled on calling special election
Morning Digest: Flesh-eating parasite attacks district where GOP governor has stalled on calling special election "If this isn’t cause for calling a special election, I don’t know what is," says Democratic candidate David Nir and Jeff Singer Jun 15 Texas Gov. Greg Abbott with Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins. (Credit: Greg Abbott Facebook) Leading Off TX-23, FL-20 Republican governors in two red states with congressional seats that have been vacant for almost two months still have not called special elections, even as a grave new agricultural threat just surfaced in one of them. That threat is the New World screwworm, a fly whose eggs, laid in the wounds of warm-blooded animals, transform into flesh-eating larvae that can kill their hosts. The fly poses a particular risk to livestock, though it can also harm wildlife, pets, and even humans. Thanks to aggressive eradication efforts, the screwworm, which is endemic in South America and the Caribbean, has largely bee...
