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‘We didn’t have a lot of deer’: Screwworm threat revives old fears in South Texas
State officials in Texas are urging residents to help protect the white-tailed deer population from the New World screwworm, a flesh-eating parasite spread by flies. The threat has revived old fears in South Texas.
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