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The US has opened a new facility in Mexico to breed and release millions of sterile flies. It’s part of an effort to curb the spread of the New World screwworm, a flesh eating parasite that has spread through Central America and into southern Mexico. Host Marco Werman learns more from entomologist Phillip Kaufman at Texas A&M University.