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Screw worm concerns grow in Texas.

Experts explain how screwworms threaten livestock, pets and wildlife.

Wednesday, June 10, 2026.

Concern is growing across Texas as new cases of the flesh-eating New World screwworm are confirmed in livestock and pets. Federal and state officials say multiple cases have now been identified in Texas, prompting increased monitoring and response efforts aimed at preventing a larger outbreak.

The parasite’s larvae feed on living tissue and can cause severe injury or death if left untreated. Veterinarians and livestock experts are urging ranchers and pet owners to closely monitor animals for wounds that are not healing, unusual bleeding, lethargy, or signs of maggot infestations.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is responding by releasing millions of sterile flies to disrupt the screwworm reproductive cycle, a strategy that successfully eradicated the pest from the continental United States decades ago. Experts stress there is no need to panic, but they encourage Texans to remain vigilant as cases continue to emerge.

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This hospital closed. The CEO has a $40 million yacht.

February 24, 2026.

In this episode of Business Explains the World, Nich visits an abandoned hospital to understand how it went from a pillar of the community to shuttered, while executives at Steward Health Care, one of the largest private, for-profit hospital chains in the U.S., made millions. From private equity buyouts to sale-leaseback real estate deals, we use Steward as a case study to explain a broader shift in American healthcare: how hospitals became financial assets, how money flows through modern hospital systems, and how investors can get paid even when the care itself is disappearing.

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We reached out to and briefed all the parties named in this story on the details we reported, and gave them more than a week to respond with comments. Steward Healthcare filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in May 2024. Cerberus and Ralph De La Torre did not respond. Medical Properties Trust, Inc. (MPT) disputes that its business model harms hospitals. When we asked for comment, the company directed us to these statements:

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0:00​ Tracking a $40M yacht

1:26​ How did people get rich while hospitals failed?

1:55​ When hospitals weren’t businesses (and how that changed)

3:09​ How KFC inspired turning hospitals into businesses

5:12​ A hospital’s profit map: which departments make money

6:31​ What a profit-driven owner cuts (and what law won’t let them cut)

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10:52​ Visiting an abandoned hospital: Nashoba Valley Medical Center

11:20​ Meet Bethany McLean — and the Steward story

12:37​ The key move: sale-leasebacks (selling the land under hospitals)

14:29​ What collapse looked like on the ground (supplies, staffing, transfers)

17:11​ Why “ban private equity” isn’t the solution

19:45​ The other force: the landlord incentive loop

21:53​ The final scene: a hospital left behind

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Health alert in Europe: flesh-eating bacteria.

October 14, 2025.

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Let's talk about Rebecca Woods, the Massachusetts beekeeper who just got sentenced to 6 months in jail for unleashing bees on sheriff's deputies.

Yes, deputies got stung. One was hospitalized. That part of the story is front and center in every headline.

But here's what's buried in paragraph four: They were there to evict an 80-year-old man with cancer from his home.

An 80-year-old man. With cancer. Being forced out of his house while he was at the library trying to print a motion to stop the eviction. His neighbor showed up with a trailer full of bees because she was desperately trying to buy him enough time to save his home.

She got 6 months in jail. He lost the house anyway.

We are being asked — again — to center our outrage on law enforcement doing their jobs, while the actual victim of this story quietly disappears from the narrative. Nobody's getting sentenced for making an elderly cancer patient homeless. Nobody's getting charged for that particular act of cruelty.

And this is the thing people don't want to say out loud: institutional violence doesn't look like a weapon. It looks like paperwork.

It looks like cutting Medicaid so a cancer patient can't afford treatment. It looks like gutting school lunch programs so kids go hungry. It looks like slashing SNAP benefits so families ration food. It looks like an eviction notice served to a man in his 80s who is fighting for his life. People literally die from these decisions — quietly, off-camera, with no dramatic footage to go viral — and we are conditioned to shrug.

But let some bees sting a deputy, and suddenly everyone has feelings.

Rebecca Woods may have broken the law. But the system that put an octogenarian cancer patient out on the street? That's working exactly as designed. And that is what should horrify us.

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Nearly 1 in 5 insured Americans had a claim denied in the past year — and 25% of those denied say it caused serious financial problems. Meanwhile, insurance companies’ profits are higher than ever. It’s time to build a system that actually works for everyone.

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Iowa’s cancer rate is skyrocketing. Our tests prove why.

June 2, 2026.

Cancer rates in Iowa are rising faster than anywhere else in the country.

Politicians blame individual choices, but the real villain is the industrial farming covering the state.

We went, tested the water, and found cancer causing levels of chemicals running through Iowa.

If you’d like to get a free nitrate testing kit, you can request one from Nitrate Watch:

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Once you test your water, log your results in their database to build a publicly sourced dataset that can’t be covered up.

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Rubio throws RFK Jr. under the bus over mishandling of Ebola outbreak (The Mirror US Online)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently said his department was going to "re-engage" with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s Health and Human Services

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Ineptitude, incompetence, stupidity, and chaos

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My therapist, who specializes in adults with ADHD, recently told me that all of her clients need a three day crashout period after a big life change. Finish the semester? Crashout. Change jobs? Crashout. Go on a really cool, really relaxing vacation? Crashout the moment you get home.

It's true of literally all of her clients. She works with a lot of them to put systems in place so that their crashouts are only three days. This includes the high-powered execs who travel regularly for work. It does not matter how successful or high functioning they are - they have ADHD, and a crashout is just part of the process of living with it.

I'm sharing this with all you ADHD friends out there, just in case you (like me) start shaming yourself if your crashout lasts more than one day. It turns out three days is kind of the best case scenario. Be kind to yourselves!

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