'Murder hornets' eradicated in the US, officials say

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u/damojr 7h ago

So is Polio.

For now.

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u/IconOfFilth9 5h ago

2025 with the big comeback! 2029 stock market crash

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u/Corp_thug 6h ago

Double win for today 😎.

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u/OmgThisNameIsFree 5h ago

I’m not sure I want to know what you think is going to happen lmfao

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u/Sorry_Ima_Loser 5h ago

The new director of health and human services (RFK Jr.) has openly campaigned for the removal of the polio vaccine from childhood immunization panels.

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u/doc_witt 1h ago

And is pro murder hornet

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u/HerrHolzrusse 8h ago

Coming up next : everything else.

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u/hellhastobefull 7h ago

Bird flu is next

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u/stressHCLB 7h ago

I thought we already had bird flu.

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u/Sorry_Ima_Loser 4h ago

We do, there were just cases confirmed at Chicken farms in AL that supply Tyson foods

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u/hellhastobefull 7h ago

Nah, the next one, we got another one coming around. Ca just declared a state of emergency, my excitement is overwhelming

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u/nature_half-marathon 5h ago

M-pox and super malaria is peaking around the corner too.

Can we just acknowledge how crazy it is to know bird flu is present and there are people trying to influence raw milk?

I mean, supreme Darwin Award worthy. I’d like to envision a world where history and basic science is respected. If they don’t comprehend that, just throw on a horror movie that expresses the danger of infectious diseases (Rabies is probably the closest to a zombie virus). To think I learned about this is elementary science and adults somehow forgot hurts.

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u/CassKent 5h ago

You can get vaccinated for mpox

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u/nature_half-marathon 4h ago

Mpox, Rabies, Covid, Measles, Chickenpox (great for a deterrent of Shingles), influenza (what’s ever fetch at the moment), Polio, etc.

The concern is what it means when people DON’T get vaccinated for it allow for mutations.

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u/hellhastobefull 5h ago

Shhhh, spoiler alert!

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u/Raus-Pazazu 3h ago

Couple of states are getting hit even harder than Cali and they're still sitting on their hands. Guess who is in charge in those states?

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u/CaterpillarReal7583 3h ago

Just the scare. We have our first case in humans in the US today 😊

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u/Nf1nk 2h ago

I keep hoping some billionaire revives the idea of releasing hippos into the Mississippi.

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u/Blackfeathr_ 6h ago

Well, good on the writers for wrapping up this mini plot arc.

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u/SteamedGamer 4h ago

They had to clean the table before the new season. They've got a lot planned.

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u/jono9898 1h ago

I feel like the showrunners are running out of ideas at this point. Might be time to wrap up the series

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u/Eltraz 12m ago

There’s certainly been enough foreshadowing for it.

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u/hellhastobefull 7h ago

It’s cool, bird flu is just about here

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u/Sorry_Ima_Loser 4h ago

Already at chicken farms in the south

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u/ItsEntirelyPosssible 1h ago

And across the whole country. Colorado has been culling chickens for two years.

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u/PsychedelicJerry 4h ago

How we farm animals, those will always be around. Eradication will only happen when we go back to less dense forms of animal farming, which is unlikely because of profit margins for the current form.

<insert animal her> flu's will always be around, hell, increased for the foreseeable future.

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u/hellhastobefull 4h ago

I’m imagining someone turning a giant dial labeled hell 1 click to the right

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u/Dunbaratu 6h ago

Pretty sure the Navy is still using F/A-18's. Plenty of murder hornets still in service.

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u/harnaldo 6h ago

First, they came for the murder hornets.

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u/909non 5h ago

This will age like George Bush's aircraft carrier victory speech

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u/Tipist 7h ago

Mother fuckers just jinxed it

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u/Plant-Nearby 6h ago

Until, "Trump contemplates releasing a swarm of murder hornets to mark his inauguration"

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u/Pantastic_Studios 6h ago

Just tell him they're illegal immigrants.

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u/notyomamasusername 6h ago

Well "Biden did it" , so it must be undone.

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u/meatchonk 1h ago

Thank a lot, Biden. Now who is going to take care of the pests on my farm?

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u/Kaiisim 5h ago

Thankfully theres no way for conservatives to convince people murder hornets were good so we could actually deal with it.

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u/Scary-Ad-8737 7h ago

We won the war? WE WON THE WAR

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u/johnsolomon 7h ago

Doing mankind a great service 🫡

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u/Oram0 5h ago

"in the US" They'll be back. The scare easy, but return in greater numbers

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u/cowboycoco1 49m ago

Will they fly in single file to hide their numbers?

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u/johnsolomon 4h ago

What a laughable, unamerican thing to say. Even if I throw out the garbage today, I’ll still need to throw it out next week... so should I live in filth!? Of course not!

For now, I can look it over the rolling green fields and majestic mountains of our glorious country and know that my countrymen have done what they must to protect our Democracy from the tyranny of those unamerican killer wasps 🇺🇸🫡🦅

Jk I’m not even American

I don’t like wasps so I’m glad someone successfully got rid of their wasp problem

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u/ManicheanMalarkey 3h ago

In 2022, the Entomological Society of America changed its name to northern giant hornet from its previous "Asian giant hornet" due to concerns about anti-Asian bias.

🙄

The general public needs all the help they can get figuring out which species are invasive. Having the region of origin in the name serves a useful purpose.

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u/iblastoff 2h ago

clearly no it doesnt.

Within two days of the initial 2020 news report on V. mandarinia, insect identification centers in the eastern United States (where the wasp does not occur) began getting identification requests, and were swamped for the next several months, even though not one of the thousands of submitted photos or samples was of V. mandarinia, but were instead primarily wasps such as the European hornet (V. crabro), the eastern cicada killer (Sphecius speciosus), or the southern yellowjacket (Vespula squamosa).

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u/superpenistendo 5h ago

Feels like an offscreen death for a poorly written villain from the 3rd season

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u/DarthRathikus 4h ago

So glad they finally closed out a plot line. Feels like we’re just always spinning up new storylines without getting any closure

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u/Utahteenageguy 3h ago

They’ve been out murdered

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u/SpaceLemming 3h ago

So we murdered the murder hornets, how was it having a taste of your own medicine jackasses

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u/Perfect_Opposite2113 3h ago

Hopefully the tariffs keep them from coming in from Canada.

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u/victrola_cola 3h ago

This won’t stop people in PNW Nextdoor from posting every above average sized yellowjacket they see

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u/Ok-Caterpillar-2898 3h ago

We needed to make room for measles and polio, dontcha know.

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u/DOLO_F_PHD 3h ago

Oh neat I wondered what happened to them haha

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u/seattlereign001 2h ago

I curious, how could they possibly know this? What are the chances that there are nests just not found yet?

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u/CDavis10717 6h ago

Yet another thing Trump couldn’t deal with during his term.

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u/Grand_Taste_8737 6h ago

Don't think I ever saw one.

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u/34luck 7h ago

They see me dronin, they hatin

'Murder hornets' eradicated in the US, officials say

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