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This is a very long but interesting article. The screw worms have attacked all kinds of mammals, including a few humans.
https://www.theatlantic.com/science...9OpLSL-HN3jS9ZhE0uhPdq20HlE-FA42HttHFEPe9ah5M
"The Florida Keys are a place where deer stand next to children at school-bus stops. They lounge on lawns. They eat snacks right out of people’s hands. So when the deer began acting strangely in the summer of 2016, the people of the Keys noticed. Bucks started swinging their heads erratically, as if trying to shake something loose.
Then wounds opened on their heads—big, gaping wounds that exposed white slabs of bone. Something was eating the deer alive."
https://www.theatlantic.com/science...9OpLSL-HN3jS9ZhE0uhPdq20HlE-FA42HttHFEPe9ah5M
"The Florida Keys are a place where deer stand next to children at school-bus stops. They lounge on lawns. They eat snacks right out of people’s hands. So when the deer began acting strangely in the summer of 2016, the people of the Keys noticed. Bucks started swinging their heads erratically, as if trying to shake something loose.
Then wounds opened on their heads—big, gaping wounds that exposed white slabs of bone. Something was eating the deer alive."
