flesh-eating

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A flesh-eating parasite that feeds on warm-blooded animals has been detected in the US for the first time since 1966.

From BBC • Jun. 4, 2026

The first case of New World screwworm, a flesh-eating fly that typically feeds on livestock, has been detected a calf in Texas—the first U.S. case in six decades.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

“MHF is simply too dangerous to use. It is a flesh-eating, low-crawling, toxic vapor cloud. Our communities will not be safe until this chemical is gone.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 8, 2026

Even more recent insights that other people are more dangerous than the flesh-eating undead are played out.

From Salon • Jan. 23, 2026

The horses whinnied and made me a whole lot of promises that they would be good flesh-eating horses from now on, but I didn’t stick around to chat.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan