Myiasis — United States
U.S. wildlife officials are taking the rare step of trying to inoculate Key deer against a ghastly screwworm threatening to wipe out the planet’s last remaining herd.
Biologists at the National Key Deer Refuge [Florida] on Wednesday [19 Oct 2016] began feeding a prophylactic drug to deer on Cudjoe and Sugarloaf Keys, where no deer have yet been infected — an intervention regularly used on livestock but rarely on wild herds and never before on key deer. The drug works by paralyzing and
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