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Re: Mad Cow disease, BSE; Justice is served.



Oz wrote:

> >>No one seems to have talked about the use of organophoshates. They are
> >>applied to cow's backs (down their spines) to remove Wabble files.
> 
> I posted this earlier:
> 
> >
> >Note for those who don't know what warbles are:
> >
> >Warbles are a particularly nasty parasite of cattle similar to american
> >screw-fly. They lay their eggs on the legs of cattle and the grubs eat
> >their way into the legs, munch their way all the way up inside the body
> >and eventually pupate just under the skin over the backbone. The maggots
> >by then are (from memory) about 1 1/2" long (35mm) and very fat. These
> >drop out, pupate on the ground and hatch into a large fly that only has
> >a range of half a mile or so. They were effectively eradicated by a
> >pour-on OP, undoubtedly to the considerable relief of the cattle
> >population.


Ain't it wonderful what we can catch & die from these days: there's 
also a similiar fly in North Africa which ain't particular about laying 
eggs in the wound of any creature. Man & Nature are doing their best to 
wipe us all out (if media reports are anything to go by..) - care for a 
spot of Aids, followed by a slap up serving of CJD and a side salad of 
Ebola. I think we should all panic now, like all good newspaper & news 
watchers.



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