Gone Fission

Eddie writes "Just when you thought it was safe to go back into that snakehead fishpond behind the shopping center in Crofton, Md., now comes word of a new threat slithering into our environment - "nuclear worms" from Vietnam carrying cholera and other deadly diseases." There are a bunch of blurbs here and there about these worms - apparently this Washington Post story was the origin of most of them.

Comments

Bad idea

[coryboehne]

I really hate to see people importing forgein plants and animal species into this country without really stopping to think as to what the consequences could be. These worms not only have the potential to wipe out certain bi-valves. The article seems to imply that they really don't know what damage they could do. A bit of research would be a great idea. Anything that can survive on the dash of a hot car for 3 days is a serious ecological threat. However the northern states have little to worry about, since the worms can't live under 68 degrees there is little chance of a problem occuring there, however florida in particluar could have some SERIOUS problems, since these breed in mangroves (florida has plenty) and florida does'nt really get cold enough to kill them off, there is a great likely-hood of these gaining a foot-hold there. Like I said, bad idea, really bad idea.