America’s Never-Ending Battle Against Flesh-Eating Worms Annotation by Deane Barker • May 26, 2024 • URLhttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/05/flesh-eating-worms-disease-containment-america-panama/611026/ FormatNarrative For decades, the United States has regularly dropped hundreds of millions of sterilized insects from planes over Central America to prevent a scourge from migrating north.