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Re: [at-l] I'm FREE!!!!!

In a message dated 98-05-20 20:50:56 EDT, kahley7 writes:

> YAAAAHHHHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
>  BTW....no maggots.  But the DR. said it does_actually_happen,
>  but that it's no big deal.  The maggots only like the dead skin around
>  the edges and their lunch habits are useful.  Yech.
>  
Congratulations.
Unless they are Botfly or Screwworm flys. Info below. On TLC their was a show
on the other day called:  Survivor Science - Jungle, it is showing again on
May 21, info below. both od these flys are BAD NEWS. 

Wildbill

BOTFLY
Any of various stout, two-winged flies, chiefly of the genera Gasterophilus
and Oestrus, having larvae that are parasitic on various animals, especially
horses and sheep, and sometimes on humans.
<A HREF="http://www.missouri.edu/~vmicrorc/Arthropods/Diptera/Dermatob.htm">
Human Bot Fly</A> 

SCREWWORM FLY
A bluish fly (Cochliomyia hominivorax) of the New World that breeds in the
living tissue of mammals, having penetrated chiefly through open wounds or the
nostrils, and whose parasitic larvae cause serious injury or death to
livestock. They have gotten into humans.
 <A HREF="http://www.missouri.edu/~vmicrorc/Arthropods/Diptera/Cochliom.htm">
American Primary Screwworm</A> 
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Survivor Science - Jungle
A teenage girl survives a plane crash only to become lost in the dangerous
Peruvian jungle. 

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Air Time(s) Eastern Time:
TLC - 21 May 1998 - 10:00 PM
TLC - 21 May 1998 - 01:00 AM
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