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Infectious Disease
For Sixty Years the Screwworm Was Gone. It's Back in Texas, and the FDA Reached for Its COVID-Era Emergency Powers.
The flesh-eating fly the US wiped out in 1966 has crossed the southern border into Texas, and Washington's answer leans on the same emergency law it used for COVID drugs, this time to slap an emergency label on Zoetis's best-selling dog pill.
Infectious DiseaseThe FDA Put an Emergency Label on a Zoetis Dog Pill for a Screwworm America Erased in 1966 Without a Single Drug
The sterile-fly barrier that kept the flesh-eating screwworm out of America for sixty years gave way, and Washington's answer has been a run of emergency drug authorizations, the newest for a Zoetis dog pill whose maker's own release cites no efficacy data against the parasite.