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
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://bit.ly/2eyLR8F
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