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Location: LaBelle, Florida | They are back, all over the news. Make sure you keep tabs on any broken skin injuries of your critters and yourself.
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | What the heck are those? I've never heard of them! |
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Location: Under The Big Sky Of Texas | RnRJack - 2016-10-13 9:44 PM What the heck are those? I've never heard of them! Google Screw worms in horses and cattle, plenty will come up for you to read up about them. They really are very gross 
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Location: Florida.. | from my undertanding its like maggots at first so if you keep the wound clean you should be ok.. With routine hygiene, it is highly unlikely that a person would develop an infestation, according to Jennifer Meale, communications director for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. That said, anyone who had screwworm "would know," said Meale -- it causes an itch -- and so be able to receive treatment before the worm caused any real health problems. Still, homeless people might be susceptible, and the department has begun outreach to them.----- |
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| Bibliafarm - 2016-10-13 10:19 PM
from my undertanding its like maggots at first so if you keep the wound clean you should be ok.. With routine hygiene, it is highly unlikely that a person would develop an infestation, according to Jennifer Meale, communications director for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. That said, anyone who had screwworm "would know," said Meale -- it causes an itch -- and so be able to receive treatment before the worm caused any real health problems. Still, homeless people might be susceptible, and the department has begun outreach to them.-----
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You have to remember government health workers are your worst politicians ... they are always looking for a way to not do anything until they can call it a pandemic and increase the size of their health departments ...
Screw worms have been eradicated in the USA on the Mexican border for years by releasing sterilized male screw worm flies which stops the females from generating fertilized eggs ...
Screw worm flies do not just fall out of the sky ... someone with the health departments and ag departments allowed contaminated iive cattle or chilled // frozen beef usually for hamburger meat from South America into the state of Florida. ... or they escaped accidently or intentionally from one of their test labs as an experimental test on the public. Any time you see someone labeled as a spokesperson or scientist .... you know you are referring to the dumbest member of their graduating class ....
Why haven't they ordered 10 billion radiated male Sw flies from one of the border state labs and turned them loose in the areas showing screw worms on a 3 month program .... no more screw worms ....
Yes ... they are dangerous .... they are maggots that thrive on live bodies and can burrow into your internal organs while killing a large area of rotted muscle .... which is not rebuildable in horses and cattle are not allowed for human consumption ...
Increase your fly spray on your livestock and inside your barns .... first thing you will see is a small puncture wound looking hole or just the drainage.... somewhere above the knees of your horse .... that is the drainage of several screw worm maggots eating your horse under his skin ... a well developed area of SW's will look like a grouping of buckshot from a shotgun ...
IGNORANCE CAN BE FIXED BUT STUPIDITY IS A LIFE TIME DISEASE ...
This is why we should all be raising hell on labeling all products coming into the USA with the country of origin in large print .. ... not just the USA distributor ... grrrrr 3rd world countries are just plain old filthy even when compared to the worst conditions in the USA ...
GOOD LUCK GUYS!!
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| They were a HUGE problem in Texas, especially in South Texas many years ago. They cost ranchers a lot of money. They finally eradicated them only to have idiot treehugger types demand the flies be reintroduced a decade or so ago. Guess they made a comeback. They are not to be taken lightly. I am sorry to see them in Florida, it won't belong until they become a huge problem again. |
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Location: "...way down south in the Everglades..." | Definitely concerning. I heard they did release sterile ones this week. Hoping they can keep it contained to the Keys. If it gets past Monroe we will be in trouble. |
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Location: Cocoa, Florida | Wow crazy, I've never heard of them, what areas of Florida have seen them? Or have they been reported in? |
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Horsey Gene Carrier
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Location: LaBelle, Florida | Right now, just in the Keys...the very southern tip of Florida.
They were erradicated, but now trying to make a comeback. |
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| Everything that BHUSA says is correct. They were bad in the late 1950's and early 1960's. Radiated flies were released and they are GONE. Again these had to be brought in from somewhere else. Releasing sterile flies is essential in the control.
I had a horse that had a small cut which we treated carefully and he got screw worms. My dad used chloroform to treat them. They ate away an area about the size of both of my fists within a couple of days. That was the only horse. Our cows got them fairly often because of fly bites. This was about 1962. Once they were eradicated I have not seen them since. They are a serious problem. |
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