Screwworm - a new menace for Africa
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CTA. 1990. Screwworm - a new menace for Africa . Spore 28. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
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A newly-introduced pest poses a serious Ask for Africa's domestic and wild animals and also to the human population. It is the New World Screwworm fly (NWS ), Cochliomyia hominivorax, or 'devourer of man''. Female screwworm flies lay their eggs in...