After a 30 year reprieve, the New World Screwworm has returned to North America. Officials report that the horrific parasitic fly has been found at the National Key Deer Refuge on Big Pine Key and No Name Key in Florida. Animals have been put down and authorities are warning Floridians to be vigilant to any open wound on themselves, pets or livestock.
The screwworm fly was eradicated in Mexico and the United States thanks to researchers disrupting their reproductive cycle with sterile males. The insect can still be found in parts of Central America and now apparently Florida.
USDA press release Here
Wiki-
Treatment of the victim can be time-consuming and, due to the high incidence of secondary infection, frustrating, but with decisive treatment, a surprisingly positive result is often achieved in all but the worst cases. The obvious first step is the manual removal of the maggots, generally using tweezers or forceps to seize the larva at the posterior end as the spiracles emerge to allow respiration. Once all larvae have been removed, a topical antibiotic smear is applied, often with an oral antibiotic accompaniment. Necrotic tissue may need to be debrided, which can be a painful process. A loose dressing is essential to allow continued fluid drainage from the wound.[5][15]
There are videos on youtube of humans having maggots removed. How it can go from, “hey Manuel, you have a few maggots on your forehead,” to, “hey Manuel, your *skull is exposed,” is something that can only be explained by low IQ and extreme poverty.
I’m not sure the screwworm, in humans, is a deep concern for anyone with an ounce of sense and access to a pair of tweezers. -bfh
*there is a video of a guy sitting in an emergency room with what can only be described as a bone yarmulke. This doesn’t happen overnight. This might happen if you’re passed out drunk for a week, laying in a bail of hay.
May be be fatal to libs. Just the name “New World Screwworm” will excite them.
Uh oh, Hillary’s thowin ash trays at Cousin IT cuz he wuz spozzed to destroy the Screwworm letters…
These things are horrific.
Watch, liberals will claim global warming caused their comeback, but somebody had to transport them here.
global warming vs immigration?
WTF?! 0bama is just making it rain illegal immigrant pestilence, isn’t he?
“illegal immigrant pestilence”
That’s exactly what it is too.
Immigration is fine but Ellis Island was there for a reason.
while Obama continues to rip the fabric of the United States a new asshole, the republican-controlled congress does absolutely bupkiss about it
… obviously must be on the same page ….
Bring a truck load to Chicago and Philadelphia for verification !!
The canned greenie proto-argument method is to go backwards in logic so you can start with global warming / climate change.
1. The climate changed
2. The rains went away
3. The wells dried up
4. The crops failed
5. The people became poorer and sicker
6. In desperation, they fled their homes for a better life on US welfare
7. They brought their diseases and pests to the US
See? The screw-worms were the direct result of climate change!!1!