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



In article <4l8til$htf@eiger.pncl.co.uk>, Adams <taxpayer@pncl.co.uk>
writes
>What are wabble files?
>In article <AD96F20F96686FA6F@legolab.demon.co.uk>, rob@legolab.demon.co.uk 
>says...
>>
>>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.

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