Posted on 07/28/2005 5:13:09 AM PDT by Puppage
Yuck.. Couldn't the worms be removed?
Now that is gross
Yeah, we could dig them out - and we did as much as possible. However, we still had to apply some medicine, but occasionally the screw worms had done too much damage by the time the medicine was applied.
It was tough to try & hold down a young calf or a full grown sheep if we were trying to dig out the worms - but we did what we could & as best we could. This was back in the early 60's and we werent high tech - just a weekend ranching operation.
"Having trouble breathing" = had stopped breathing (apparently for quite some time)
I thought maggots only eat DEAD flesh. I thought( maybe incorrectly) that is why they are sometimes used in the treatment of burn victims.
You are probably right. I believe maggots only eat necrotized flesh, which is why they are sometimes used to clean wounds. This guy probably had other problems that killed him, but they weren't sensational enough for the reporter.
Then the LORD said to Adam, "Where is your brother Michael?"
"I don't know," he replied. "Am I my brother's keeper?"The LORD said, "What have you done? Listen! Your brother's blood cries out to me from the ground.
~ Genesis 4:9~10
I wouldnt doubt that the last case of screw worms in Texas was 1982. That sounds about right. I cant find any info on a woman in south Texas being infected - but I recall reading it in the newspaper some years back - maybe 20 or more years ago...i dunno for sure.
I just did some research & found out our troops better watch out for screw worms, too! Seems there is a variety of screw worm fly in and around Iraq & Iran....
Check the link below:
http://www.ams.ac.ir/AIM/0251/56-chrysomya.pdf
These men aren't old enough to have dementia. Maybe they were mentally ill, or druggies.>>>>>>>
Sixty six is about the same age as a man I know who has Alzheimer's, he has reached the point of hardly knowing his own name.
Only reason I knew was what hubby told me. He was born and raised around Hye/Johnson City and his dad raised a poop load of sheep and angora goats. Most all of his income was from shearing his animals and shearing for a living. Way too hard work for anyone and he did it way into his 70s/early 80s. Had very smooth hands from the lanolin from the wool.
The government must compensate the family.
Give credit where it is due.
This is one of hitlery's constituents.
It's her fault.
Too late, Mexico is visiting us.
I read on another thread that there is one type of maggot (the screwfly IIRC) that eats living flesh as well.
Is a bot also a maggot? Why then are there two different words?
Sorry, I have no idea. I'm not even sure what a bot is. (I should have paid more attention in biology class.)
"He was born and raised around Hye/Johnson City and his dad raised a poop load of sheep and angora goats. Most all of his income was from shearing his animals and shearing for a living. Way too hard work for anyone and he did it way into his 70s/early 80s."
Our ranch was close to Marble Falls & we'd take our wool and/or mohair to Johnson City to the warehouse. I loved the smell inside the warehouse.
Shearing sheep was indeed a very hard job. I forget now, but i seem to recall the price to shear sheep was less than a $1.00 a head - maybe a $1.00 for the buck sheep. But that was a high price to pay back then. This was in the early '70's - as we got out of raising sheep and goats by then. We didnt shear our sheep - just hired the shearers.
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