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Producer Greer Simpkin noted that the swarms of flies visible throughout required no visual effects – the location was so badly infested that cast and crew regularly swallowed them during takes.
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The screwworm is actually a fly whose larvae infest the wounds of warm-blooded animals.
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Ilena Peng,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
The larvae can infest any warm-blooded animal, including wildlife, pets and occasionally even humans.
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Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
Screwworms Primarily Affect Livestock Screwworms can infest farm animals including cattle, goats, and sheep.
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Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
11 June 2026
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Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
17 June 2026
The screwworm is actually a fly whose larvae infest the wounds of warm-blooded animals.
—
Ilena Peng,
Fortune,
13 June 2026
The larvae can infest any warm-blooded animal, including wildlife, pets and occasionally even humans.
—
Aimee Picchi,
CBS News,
12 June 2026
Screwworms Primarily Affect Livestock Screwworms can infest farm animals including cattle, goats, and sheep.
—
Emily Kay Votruba,
EverydayHealth.com,
11 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for infest
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Instead, Isaac, 28, will become an unrestricted free agent after nine years in Orlando that were plagued by injury.
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Greenberg tried his best to ignore an irritating ankle injury that had plagued him the last couple of weeks and grimaced under the hazy sunlight as the pitcher, probably 20 or more years his junior, stared him down.
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The news comes as Lackland Air Force Base in Texas — home to the Air Force's Basic Military Training program — grapples with a flu outbreak that has infected 275 people in recent weeks, a congressional staffer with knowledge of the matter told CBS News.
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Hall was infected in the 2000s and diagnosed in 2006, according to the Bay Area Lyme Foundation.
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In recent years, Haiti has seen a presidential assassination and extremely dangerous and violent conditions in the country, with entire regions being overrun with gangs.
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Coming later this year, Bass X Macina is set in a lawless Steampunk West overrun by brutal outlaws, machines and supernatural terrors, while Sparks of Tomorrow follows how technological progress evolved along a different path shaped by steam power blankets Kyoto in smoke.
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Seltz’s system crawls hundreds of millions of pages a day, and returns results in under 200 milliseconds.
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The animal eventually crawled under a dock.
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Cold water shock impairs breathing and can overwhelm even strong swimmers within seconds.
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Along the highway linking Caracas to the coast, streams of civilians carried water, food, and medicine toward La Guaira on foot and by motorcycle, stepping in as the scale of the disaster overwhelmed the official effort.
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“Infest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/infest. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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