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September 10, 2026 (Hour 2) · Zone 1150 - Chip Howard's SportsTalk

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  Speaker 8: Gonna put the.
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  Speaker 9: World away for a minute Pretend I don't live.
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  Speaker 7: In it.
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  Speaker 10: Sunshine gonna wash my blues away. Had sweet love but
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  Speaker 10: I lost it.
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  Speaker 6: She got too.
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  Speaker 5: Close so I fought it.
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  Speaker 10: Now I'm lost in the world trying to find me
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  Speaker 10: a better way. Wishing I was deep, deep in the
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  Speaker 10: water somewhere. Got the blue sky breeze and it don't
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  Speaker 10: seem fair. Only worry in the world is the tide
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  Speaker 10: gonna reach my chair.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Clark Eisenhower edition of The Big Show.
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  Speaker 5: Coming up, we're.
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  Speaker 1: Going to talk to folks at the Texas Parks and
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  Speaker 1: Wildlife Department, get an update on the screwworm outbreak, which
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  Speaker 1: happened earlier this summer, is substantially under control, I think
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  Speaker 1: you could say, in the state of Texas. But we're
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  Speaker 1: going to hear about that. Talk a little bears because
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  Speaker 1: they're continued to encroach into people places. It's there's been
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  Speaker 1: a lot more sightings in Texas, especially out in West
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  Speaker 1: Texas along the Mexican border. But they've shown up a
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  Speaker 1: little farther inland. There are occasional sightings in deep east
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  Speaker 1: Texas because we know there are bears in Louisiana and
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  Speaker 1: in Arkansas.
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  Speaker 5: We're talking black bears here.
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  Speaker 1: About one and a half to two percent of sightings
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  Speaker 1: end in euthanasia, according to a spokesperson for the Colorado
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  Speaker 1: Parks and Wildlife Department. Colorado does not have grizzlies, only
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  Speaker 1: black bears, over 7,000 sightings a year. Officials and landowners
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  Speaker 1: in New Mexico have killed 187 bears this year, the
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  Speaker 1: most in 15 years, according to the State Wildlife Agency.
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  Speaker 1: They've also relocated 35 adult bears and 16 cubs. The
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  Speaker 1: first death from a bear in New Mexico in 25
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  Speaker 1: years happened last month. Utah authorities said they euthanized 39
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  Speaker 1: animals this year.
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  Speaker 5: That's a record.
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  Speaker 1: In Montana, sightings too numerous to count because they've got
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  Speaker 1: grizz there. 24 grizzlies died this year, most killed after
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  Speaker 1: attacking livestock or people or hit by a car. A
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  Speaker 1: man was attacked in Glacier earlier this season.
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  Speaker 5: A hiker, this is a new story.
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  Speaker 1: Was left with life-altering injuries after she was mauled by
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  Speaker 1: a grizzly bear in Montana. The woman, identified in an
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  Speaker 1: online fundraiser as Aubrey, was attacked last week while walking
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  Speaker 1: her dog near Columbia Falls. The Montana Fish Wildlife Park
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  Speaker 1: Service called the attack a surprise.
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  Speaker 5: A defensive encounter.
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  Speaker 1: The woman said, described as an avid outdoorsman flown to
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  Speaker 1: Seattle for emergency surgery. Her injuries are extensive and life-altering,
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  Speaker 1: according to the Post. She and her husband find themselves
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  Speaker 1: navigating a long and uncertain road of recovery. Investigators discovered
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  Speaker 1: a white-tailed deer carcass near the scene. Officials believe the
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  Speaker 1: presence of a food source and the cub Contributed to
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  Speaker 1: the female bear's violent response. Her dog, Frankie, was not injured,
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  Speaker 1: which makes you wonder what kind of guard dog that is.
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  Speaker 1: The Montana Fish and Wildlife Director, Christy Clark, said in
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  Speaker 1: a statement, our thoughts are with the victim and their
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  Speaker 1: loved ones during this difficult time. So, look, get them
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  Speaker 1: before they get you.
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  Speaker 5: I love the list. If you see a bear, don't approach.
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  Speaker 5: Don't feed bears.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Use bear-resistant garbage bins. Carry bear spray in areas.
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  Speaker 5: Where you know there are bears.
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  Speaker 1: And you need to carry a big gun because sometimes
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  Speaker 1: little guns will just make them mad.
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  Speaker 5: You know what I'm saying? So let's be aware of that.
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  Speaker 1: There's a picture in the social media of a bear
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  Speaker 1: wandering through a store parking lot in Santa Fe.
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  Speaker 5: Look, they're everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And because of the drought in the West, they are
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  Speaker 1: on the move this year. There are more encounters because
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  Speaker 1: bears have to move to find food. And the drought
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  Speaker 1: causes major issues, not only for food, but obviously for
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  Speaker 1: water as well.
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  Speaker 5: So just be careful out there.
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  Speaker 1: If you're in big bid, you're going to New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana,
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  Speaker 1: any of those areas. Florida has a really growing population
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  Speaker 1: of black bears. So be on the lookout for that
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  Speaker 1: Hey, West Virginia has a new state blue catfish record.
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Harmon fishing with his four-year-old son. No, Rodney, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: I had four-year-old son, Walker. They were fishing on the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio River. They were trying to catch some small fish
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  Speaker 1: for the sun. 18-foot aluminum boat. four catfish rods in
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  Speaker 1: the water. Initially thinking they were snagged, Tyler ended up
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  Speaker 1: finding himself in a 20-minute fight, hoisting it aboard with
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  Speaker 1: help of his father, battling submerged brush and the anchor
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  Speaker 1: line from the boat.
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  Speaker 5: But this catfish ended up 48-point.
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  Speaker 1: Won five inches long and weighed 72 and three quarters pounds.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio River isn't exactly a crystal clear postcard body
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  Speaker 1: of water. Murky, industrial, but even hardcore trophy hunters spend
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  Speaker 1: thousands of dollars on high-end electronics and lots of time.
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  Speaker 1: This was a casual fishing trip that produced.
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  Speaker 5: A state record.
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  Speaker 1: And as I like to say, you cannot catch anything
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  Speaker 1: if your line is not in the water.
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  Speaker 5: That's just the way it is. All hell broke moose
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  Speaker 5: in Big Sky country last week. I love these stories.
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  Speaker 1: A quick-thinking dog mom saved her three pets from a
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  Speaker 1: terrifying moose attack in her Montana backyard home with the
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  Speaker 1: help of bear spray. Moments after letting the dogs outside,
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  Speaker 1: Shelly Thorborn came face to face with a huge moose
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  Speaker 1: and its baby.
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  Speaker 5: Calf that was on her back porch.
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  Speaker 1: I looked around the side of the house and it
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  Speaker 1: was a mama moose coming, running as fast as she
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  Speaker 1: could with her ears pinned back, she told CNN. The
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  Speaker 1: beast roared into the backyard and was making these kind
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  Speaker 1: of grunting noises which scared off two of the dogs,
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  Speaker 1: but 14-year-old Annie who's slow, left behind in the chaos.
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  Speaker 1: She can't hear. She's deaf.
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  Speaker 5: She's visually impaired, said Thorborn, who was worried about Annie.
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  Speaker 1: During the encounter, Thorborn is seen yelling at the two
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  Speaker 1: wild animals while sprinting around her outdoor area in pure
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  Speaker 1: panic to save her pets and herself.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, she could have just stayed in the house to
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  Speaker 5: save herself.
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  Speaker 1: I was fearful for sure, she said, because she was
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  Speaker 1: so big, and I've never had a big animal like
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  Speaker 1: that run after me. Thorborn ran inside, grabbed a can
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  Speaker 1: of bear spray to try to fend off the mama
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  Speaker 1: and her calf.
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  Speaker 5: I didn't realize I was doing all that. I just
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  Speaker 5: wanted them all in the house.
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  Speaker 1: The bear spray did the trick and the three dogs unharmed.
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  Speaker 5: This is about a half hour away from Yellowstone.
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  Speaker 1: Due to the location, moose are common roaming around the
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  Speaker 1: southern Montana community.
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  Speaker 5: Humans and moose share the same neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: Moose safety needs to be a top priority. If you
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  Speaker 1: encounter a moose, this is another great bit of suggestions
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 5: Moose safety. Look, people, I know you like your dogs.
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  Speaker 5: I get it. I personally like my life, my life,
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  Speaker 5: better than any dog. So that's just me, you know.
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  Speaker 5: She's very fortunate.
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  Speaker 1: A Washington man is recovering from a vicious grizzly bear
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  Speaker 1: attack last week as he and his cousin hunted caribou
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  Speaker 1: in northern Alaska. Jaden Nakora, 27, suffered bites to his face.
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  Speaker 1: recalled to the Seattle News that he saw stars as
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  Speaker 1: he felt his bones being crunched. He was like, okay,
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  Speaker 1: this is where it ends? I was just waiting, like,
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  Speaker 1: how's this going to be? Just step over the line
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  Speaker 1: from being alive to being in heaven. Now, Cora said
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  Speaker 1: the attack occurred so rapidly he could not protect himself.
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  Speaker 5: I turned around.
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  Speaker 1: There's a bear charging straight up 15 feet away. His
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  Speaker 1: mouth was open.
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  Speaker 5: It was roaring.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't have any time When the bear was on Nakora,
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  Speaker 1: his cousin Daniel fired several shots to try to scare
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  Speaker 1: the bear away. But the bear turned to attack Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: who kept firing. Then either he knocked the gun out
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  Speaker 1: of my hand or it fell out of my hand
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  Speaker 1: when he tackled me. At that point, I was like,
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  Speaker 1: I got to get my face down and play dead
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  Speaker 1: and not let him flip me over. The bear, which
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  Speaker 1: could have been injured by a shot, left the area.
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  Speaker 1: They scrambled to get the cousins bleeding under control. At
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  Speaker 1: some point, Nakora used his cell phone to record a
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  Speaker 1: goodbye message to his wife and two daughters. It's 100
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  Speaker 1: miles southwest of Deadhorse. The hunters rescued after sending an
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  Speaker 1: SOS signal via satellite phone. Nakora was taken to Harborview
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  Speaker 1: Medical Center in Seattle. after stops in Deadhorse and Anchorage. Remember,
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  Speaker 1: they were in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 5: On Wednesday, a.
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  Speaker 1: Relative posted a Facebook update that another surgery is planned.
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  Speaker 1: He's been resting and recovering at home. We're seeing a
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  Speaker 1: little improvement each day in swelling, movement, and pain. His
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  Speaker 1: wounds are looking good.
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  Speaker 5: No signs of infection. We're very thankful.
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  Speaker 1: He's scheduled to go back to Harborview next Wednesday for
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  Speaker 1: consultation and surgery the following day. The Alaska Department of
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  Speaker 1: Fish and Game at the time of the post had
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  Speaker 1: not issued a release regarding the incident. KOMO News in
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  Speaker 1: Seattle reported the agency had performed an aerial search after
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  Speaker 1: the attack but did not locate any bears. Harrowing video
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  Speaker 1: shows a crocodile handler desperately clinging to the side of
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  Speaker 1: a pool as a predator grabs onto his legs and
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  Speaker 1: drags him into the water.
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  Speaker 5: This is Papua New Guinea at an adventure park.
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  Speaker 1: He was rushed to the hospital after being trapped in
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  Speaker 1: the crocodile's jaws for over.
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  Speaker 5: An hour and later died of his injuries. That's bearing
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  Speaker 5: the lead.
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  Speaker 1: He brought the chicken to the fence and the crocodile
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  Speaker 1: attacked the person and tried to bring him into the pool.
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  Speaker 1: He was in severe pain. He couldn't scream, couldn't speak
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  Speaker 1: properly at the time. The only thing I could hear
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  Speaker 1: him say was, I haven't done anything wrong. The footage
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  Speaker 1: showed the handler clinging to the side of the pool
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  Speaker 1: and holding a pole offered by a why his legs
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  Speaker 1: appear to be trapped in the croc's jaws. Another bystander
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  Speaker 1: could be seen holding on to the man's arms from
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  Speaker 1: the edge of the pool. Police shot the reptile before
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  Speaker 1: freeing the man. The man from Western Islands in Papua
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  Speaker 1: New Guinea lost a leg before he was taken to
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  Speaker 1: a hospital. The park was closed until further notice. Adventure
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  Speaker 1: Park holds crocodile feeding demonstrations, which feature staff closely interacting.
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  Speaker 5: With the animals.
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  Speaker 1: Get them before they get you. Colorado Parks and Wildlife
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  Speaker 1: investigated a bear attack in Estes Park after a bear
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  Speaker 1: got inside the home.
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  Speaker 5: Of an elderly woman last Thursday morning.
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  Speaker 13: According to CPW, 4.30 a.m., the bear broke into a
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  Speaker 13: house on the western side of Estes Park.
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  Speaker 1: The bear came through an unlocked, closed window. They investigated
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  Speaker 1: the attack after the bear got in the home. And
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  Speaker 1: investigators say the homeowner is a woman in her 80s.
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  Speaker 1: She told authorities she awoke to the bear in the
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  Speaker 1: kitchen on the second floor. The bear charged at her,
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  Speaker 1: scratched her across the stomach, knocked her to the ground,
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  Speaker 1: left the house through the window it came in through.
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  Speaker 1: She called 911. Sheriff's deputies responded. They couldn't find the bear.
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  Speaker 1: The woman was treated for her abdominal injuries. They've asked
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  Speaker 1: for help from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal and
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  Speaker 1: Plant Health Inspection Service, finding the bear.
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  Speaker 5: Heavy bear activity has been reported in the area.
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  Speaker 1: Multiple bears breaking into occupied homes and cars the last
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  Speaker 1: few days. Traps have been set to remove them. As
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  Speaker 1: we continue to investigate this extraordinary bear year, continue to
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  Speaker 1: be vigilant in removing food and trash that may attract
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  Speaker 1: bears to your property. Wildlife officers are working tirelessly to
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  Speaker 1: respond to an unprecedented number of bear reports, and we
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  Speaker 1: are counting on the community to help mitigate the conflict. Look,
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about the drought. When there is drought.
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  Speaker 5: Animals have.
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  Speaker 1: To move to find things to eat because it's not
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  Speaker 1: available at their normal places. So remember that, people. When
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  Speaker 1: you're traveling, especially if you're camping, even if you're obviously
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  Speaker 1: renting a house in bear country, lock the doors and windows,
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  Speaker 1: close the garage, keep the food away, and be smart
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  Speaker 1: about it, and keep air spray and a big gun nearby.
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  Speaker 1: A man who was attacked by a seven-foot shark in
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  Speaker 1: Florida said he would 100% be dead if it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: for nearby boaters providing life-saving assistance while fishing in shallow
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  Speaker 1: water at a sandbar in Key West. Last week, Dave Daniel, 43,
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  Speaker 1: was bitten by what he believes to be a six
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  Speaker 1: or seven foot nurse shark. Nurse sharks usually aren't aggressive.
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  Speaker 5: I looked down at the water.
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  Speaker 1: There was so much blood, said Daniel, telling NBC News.
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  Speaker 1: He noticed the large beast.
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  Speaker 5: That's not right. I don't know who wrote this. A
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  Speaker 5: shark is not a beast. Tried to move away, but.
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  Speaker 1: It suddenly beelined toward him face to face. That can't
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  Speaker 1: be happened if he's standing in needy water and brutally
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  Speaker 1: latched onto his legs.
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  Speaker 5: I love this story.
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  Speaker 1: After the bloody mauling, Daniel remembered thinking, there's no way
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  Speaker 1: you're getting off this beach, bud. Sitting on the beach,
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  Speaker 1: bleeding out, I was making peace with myself, saying, if
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  Speaker 1: it's your time to go, it's your time to go.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel saw two nearby boaters who happened to be medical
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  Speaker 1: staff racing over to provide assistance like angels coming out
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  Speaker 1: of nowhere.
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  Speaker 5: He said. If it weren't for them, I would 100%
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  Speaker 5: be dead on the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Grace to God that they were medically trained people and
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  Speaker 1: nurses and EMTs. Nearby boater and trained nurse Courtney McMurray
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  Speaker 1: told NBC, she happened to be at the right place
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  Speaker 1: at the right time. I think he and I were
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  Speaker 1: meant to be there. The boaters provided life-saving support while
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the Coast Guard who airlifted Daniel to a
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  Speaker 1: Miami hospital where he underwent two successful surgeries. The 43-year-old
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  Speaker 1: who works as an exterminator was discharged from the hospital
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  Speaker 1: but said, quote, he can't really move around at all.
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  Speaker 1: His foot is in a boot. He's bandaged from the surgeries.
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  Speaker 1: I feel okay, pretty strong. My blood pressure's acting funny because,
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  Speaker 1: you know, I got attacked by a shark. His recovery
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  Speaker 1: is expected to take months, including physical therapy, time off work,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel feels incredibly humble and thankful that I realize that
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  Speaker 1: every minute does count.
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  Speaker 5: In your life.
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  Speaker 1: So, you know, there are a lot of people on
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  Speaker 1: the beach in Florida. There aren't a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: who weighed fish in Florida. says he was on a
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  Speaker 1: shallow water sandbar in Key West. I mean, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't do that.
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  Speaker 12: I'm just saying.
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  Speaker 1: A beach on Martha's Vineyard was closed to swimming after
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  Speaker 1: a woman suffered a potential shark bite Monday afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: This is kind of a weird story.
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  Speaker 1: Emergency personnel responded to Norton Point in Edgartown 1.40 in
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  Speaker 1: the afternoon for a report of a swimmer who sustained
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  Speaker 1: an injury to her lower leg. Edgar Town Town Administrator
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  Speaker 1: James Haggerty said the woman in her 20s had, quote,
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  Speaker 1: wounds consistent with.
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  Speaker 5: A bite from a marine animal.
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  Speaker 1: No shark or other marine animal was observed or confirmed
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  Speaker 1: in connection with the incident.
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  Speaker 5: This sounds like Jaws, doesn't it? We can't close the beach.
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  Speaker 1: Based upon the nature of the injuries, the wounds were
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  Speaker 1: considered consistent with a potential shark bite.
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  Speaker 5: Just say it, man.
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  Speaker 1: The woman was treated at the scene, taken to the hospital.
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  Speaker 5: Her injuries reported as non-life-threatening.
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  Speaker 1: Swimming at the South Beach suspended for several hours, beachgoers
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  Speaker 1: are reminded to remain aware of their surroundings and to
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  Speaker 1: comply with instructions from lifeguards and any posted beach Advisories.
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  Speaker 1: is produced through the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department with
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: Morgan O'Hanlon, a senior staff member, and David Yaskowitz, who
• 31:10
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• 31:13
  Speaker 1: about the screwworm scare. It is basically under control. The
• 31:23
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  Speaker 5: There have been no humans infected.
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: There's still some zones, primarily in southwest Texas, kind of
• 31:38
  Speaker 1: in the Devil's River Basin, southwest.
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  Speaker 5: Of Sonora and that area.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously, there are better methods of controlling it than there
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: used to be. But it also can affect wildlife as well.
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• 32:02
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• 32:11
  Speaker 9: David, how much do you know about the New World
• 32:14
  Speaker 9: screwworm fly?
• 32:15
  Speaker 16: Much more than I'd like to.
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: Why don't you start by telling me why they're called
• 32:19
  Speaker 9: New World screwworms? Is there an Old World screwworm?
• 32:23
  Speaker 16: Well, Morgan, actually, there is. It's the New World being
• 32:26
  Speaker 16: really the Western Hemisphere. So in Asia and parts of
• 32:31
  Speaker 16: Africa and the Middle East, the Old World screwworm exists.
• 32:35
  Speaker 16: All screwworm flies are known for having a pretty nasty diet.
• 32:39
  Speaker 16: As maggots, they feed on the flesh of living organisms.
• 32:43
  Speaker 9: That's absolutely disgusting. And I guess I still am not
• 32:48
  Speaker 9: 100% certain as to why we're talking about them. I'm
• 32:52
  Speaker 9: a lifelong Texan, and I thought I would have already
• 32:55
  Speaker 9: heard about something so scary already living in the state
• 32:59
  Speaker 9: of Texas.
• 33:00
  Speaker 16: Well, over the last several months, they've been making their
• 33:03
  Speaker 16: way up from southern Mexico to our southern border and
• 33:08
  Speaker 16: right near Texas. And so it's been of great concern
• 33:11
  Speaker 16: to not only the department here, but also those that
• 33:15
  Speaker 16: have livestock and companion animals as well.
• 33:19
  Speaker 9: So this is all relatively recent.
• 33:22
  Speaker 14: Yeah.
• 33:22
  Speaker 16: I mean, the new world screwworm has been around for
• 33:25
  Speaker 16: quite a while, but it's been taken care of and
• 33:28
  Speaker 16: pushed back down to where it was endemic in Central
• 33:32
  Speaker 16: America and the northern part of South America.
• 33:36
  Speaker 9: Well then, David, I can't say I'm so excited, but
• 33:40
  Speaker 9: I guess it's time to go outside now and learn
• 33:44
  Speaker 9: some more.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Let's go outside.
• 33:46
  Speaker 9: To learn more about the new world screwworm, I called Dr.
• 33:49
  Speaker 9: Sarah Wyckoff. You might remember her from our bighorn episode
• 33:52
  Speaker 9: in season one.
• 33:54
  Speaker 8: I'm Dr. Sarah Wyckoff, and I am one of the
• 33:56
  Speaker 8: wildlife veterinarians for Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. And Dr.
• 34:00
  Speaker 9: Wyckoff, what is the new world screwworm?
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  Speaker 8: So New World Screwworm is the name of a fly.
• 34:09
  Speaker 8: And the fly, the scientific name is Cochlea maya omnivorax,
• 34:13
  Speaker 8: which omnivorax actually means man-eater. So that's kind of a
• 34:20
  Speaker 8: little bit of a spoiler alert for what we'll be
• 34:22
  Speaker 8: talking about with this fly. But this fly looks like
• 34:26
  Speaker 8: your average house fly. Or a kind of blow fly,
• 34:30
  Speaker 8: those metallic flies that you see that are maybe around
• 34:33
  Speaker 8: like cattle manure or rotten food. But what's different about
• 34:36
  Speaker 8: the new world screw worm is that instead of feeding
• 34:40
  Speaker 8: on kind of decaying food or decaying flesh, the maggots
• 34:43
  Speaker 8: of the fly feed on the living tissue of that animal.
• 34:47
  Speaker 8: And that's how those maggots grow bigger and then they
• 34:50
  Speaker 8: pupate and then they turn back into the adult fly.
• 34:53
  Speaker 8: It only feeds on living tissue. any worm-blooded animal, including birds,
• 34:59
  Speaker 8: but mostly mammals. But then also the name screwworm comes
• 35:03
  Speaker 8: from the larva kind of digging down, screwing into the
• 35:07
  Speaker 8: living tissue to feed more and more as they get bigger.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that is just awful and terrifying. Do you know,
• 35:16
  Speaker 9: is that supposed to hurt for screwworms to be inside
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: of a living being?
• 35:21
  Speaker 8: So screwworms, they're said to have very kind of sharp
• 35:24
  Speaker 8: mouth hooks, which allow them to kind of burrow into
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  Speaker 8: the skin better. I imagine that it probably isn't very comfortable,
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: just the feeling of something kind of worming its way down.
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: But also with these wounds, you know, they start off
• 35:38
  Speaker 8: as maybe something as small as a tick bite. The
• 35:41
  Speaker 8: female fly will lay her eggs around that wound. Those
• 35:44
  Speaker 8: eggs hatch into larva or maggots. And those maggots are
• 35:48
  Speaker 8: what kind of burrow down and they can make that
• 35:50
  Speaker 8: wound more very, very big and very, very deep. And
• 35:54
  Speaker 8: that significant wound, you know, if left untreated, can kill
• 35:57
  Speaker 8: an animal.
• 35:58
  Speaker 9: Can you take us back in time? What would it
• 36:01
  Speaker 9: have been like to live with the screwworm in Texas?
• 36:04
  Speaker 9: Paint that picture for us.
• 36:06
  Speaker 8: Living with screwworm, it does sound like it was very harrowing.
• 36:10
  Speaker 8: It was unfortunately a very important reason for economic loss
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: back in the day when it came to kind of
• 36:18
  Speaker 8: the meat market. There was a lot of kind of
• 36:23
  Speaker 8: extra work that had to happen to make sure that
• 36:26
  Speaker 8: the animals on the farm were safe and that they
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: weren't getting any, you know, screw room kind of set
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: up in any of their wounds, causing significant wounds in
• 36:36
  Speaker 8: those animals or even kind of the calves as well.
• 36:39
  Speaker 8: Although I've been talking about how screw room likes to
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: lay eggs on wounds, they can also lay eggs on
• 36:45
  Speaker 8: kind of exposed living tissue like mucous membrane. So eyes, ears, nose, mouth,
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: and umbilical stumps and calves. And so a really important
• 36:55
  Speaker 8: part of being on the farm back then was making
• 36:58
  Speaker 8: sure that calves and those umbilical stumps were protected so
• 37:02
  Speaker 8: screwworm couldn't get in there. And so back during that time,
• 37:05
  Speaker 8: it's estimated that hundreds of thousands to a couple of
• 37:09
  Speaker 8: millions of dollars of economic loss were the product of
• 37:13
  Speaker 8: screwworm and livestock back in the day.
• 37:16
  Speaker 9: The New World screwworm is not native to the United States,
• 37:20
  Speaker 9: but it was first documented here as early as the mid-1800s.
• 37:23
  Speaker 9: It was a significant problem in the U.S. in the
• 37:26
  Speaker 9: 1930s through the early 60s. This PSA from 1960 talks
• 37:30
  Speaker 9: about the history of the screwworm infestation.
• 37:33
  Speaker 17: Stockmen have been fighting this pest for more than 100 years.
• 37:39
  Speaker 17: The first screwworms to reach the southeast were traced to
• 37:42
  Speaker 17: incoming shipments of infested cattle in 1933. Within a year,
• 37:48
  Speaker 17: infestations broke out in 30 Georgia counties and 20 in Florida.
• 37:53
  Speaker 17: They spread rapidly. By 1934, they reached as far as
• 37:57
  Speaker 17: Lake Okeechobee. The next year, they were found all over
• 38:01
  Speaker 17: the state. Florida's climate permitted survival through each succeeding winter. Thus,
• 38:06
  Speaker 17: the screwworm also infested other parts of the southeast during
• 38:11
  Speaker 17: warm weather.
• 38:13
  Speaker 9: In 1960, scientists discovered a solution that could help solve
• 38:16
  Speaker 9: the screwworm problem.
• 38:18
  Speaker 8: Through something called sterile insect technique and a bunch of
• 38:22
  Speaker 8: collaboration between kind of federal partners and the agencies, the
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: screwworm was able to be eradicated and pushed out of
• 38:30
  Speaker 8: the United States back in 1966. There have been a
• 38:34
  Speaker 8: couple of little reintroduction events since then where a fly...
• 38:39
  Speaker 8: has kind of come in, or maybe a little population
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: has come in, caused a little outbreak in the area,
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: but then it was able to be successfully eradicated or
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: pushed back. And right now, the most recent outbreak that
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: happened kind of on United States soil was an outbreak
• 38:56
  Speaker 8: in 2016 in the Florida Keys, where it affected the
• 38:59
  Speaker 8: Florida Key deer population out there, which is a threatened
• 39:02
  Speaker 8: deer species.
• 39:03
  Speaker 9: You mentioned a sterilization process for these flies that was
• 39:07
  Speaker 9: part of the solution of eradicating them. Can you go
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: into that history a little bit? How did the sterilization
• 39:14
  Speaker 9: program start and what did it do?
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a great question. So the sterile insect technique,
• 39:20
  Speaker 8: or SIT as you might see it, was kind of
• 39:23
  Speaker 8: the collaboration of two different ideas coming together when it
• 39:27
  Speaker 8: came to what can we do to tackle screwworms. One
• 39:30
  Speaker 8: of them was looking at the biology of the animal
• 39:33
  Speaker 8: or the insect in this case and saying, what can
• 39:35
  Speaker 8: we do to help interrupt this life cycle?
• 39:38
  Speaker 9: Here's another clip from 1960 when scientists were already working
• 39:42
  Speaker 9: to answer that question.
• 39:44
  Speaker 17: The Department of Agriculture has spent years searching for new
• 39:48
  Speaker 17: and better ways to combat this destructive pest. An entomologist
• 39:54
  Speaker 17: of the Agricultural Research Service proposed, If a method of
• 39:59
  Speaker 17: sexually sterilizing flies could be found, eradication is probable.
• 40:06
  Speaker 8: With New World Screwworm, the female only mates once in
• 40:09
  Speaker 8: her entire life. And her lifespan can be 21 to
• 40:13
  Speaker 8: 45 days, kind of depending on factors like weather and soil.
• 40:18
  Speaker 8: And so when scientists were thinking about how to interrupt
• 40:21
  Speaker 8: this cycle, they thought, what if we get some sterile
• 40:26
  Speaker 8: males out there that the females will mate with, but
• 40:29
  Speaker 8: then nothing happens because the males are sterile. And so
• 40:32
  Speaker 8: there's no egg production. And so releasing those flies into
• 40:35
  Speaker 8: the populations, helped bring down numbers because if you're mating,
• 40:40
  Speaker 8: but then there's nothing coming out, then slowly over time,
• 40:44
  Speaker 8: the cycle can die.
• 40:46
  Speaker 9: But how did they sterilize the flies?
• 40:49
  Speaker 17: Geneticists had accidentally sterilized fruit flies with x-rays. So x-rays
• 40:55
  Speaker 17: were tried on screw worms and they worked. Later, x-rays
• 41:00
  Speaker 17: were tried on screw worm pupae. Irradiation during this stage
• 41:04
  Speaker 17: also made screw worm flies sterile. This was the first
• 41:08
  Speaker 17: real breakthrough toward a new approach to insect eradication. The
• 41:13
  Speaker 17: most significant step forward came when a much cheaper way
• 41:16
  Speaker 17: was found to cause sterility. Expose the screw worm fly
• 41:21
  Speaker 17: to nuclear energy, cobalt-60, gamma rays.
• 41:26
  Speaker 8: So that was one part. But then the other part
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: was the ability to mass produce these flies in research
• 41:32
  Speaker 8: settings without having to use live animals or living tissues
• 41:36
  Speaker 8: or anything like that for feeding. And so they were
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: able to create these flies with just a gross mixture
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: of like liver juice and blood and a little bit
• 41:45
  Speaker 8: of formalin on top and able to mass rear these
• 41:48
  Speaker 8: flies and able to pump out, you know, hundreds of
• 41:51
  Speaker 8: millions of flies a week, which is fantastic.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: It looks like that program was pretty effective, right? Like
• 41:59
  Speaker 9: they're not here anymore. Is that correct? Where were we
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: able to push them back to? Because I know they're
• 42:05
  Speaker 9: not gone entirely anymore or else we wouldn't be here
• 42:08
  Speaker 9: talking about this.
• 42:10
  Speaker 18: Yes.
• 42:10
  Speaker 8: And it's very important to point out that the sterile
• 42:14
  Speaker 8: insect technique is the mainstay of eradication when it comes
• 42:17
  Speaker 8: to screwworm. You know, that's the important driver here in
• 42:21
  Speaker 8: all of this. And then the second important part is
• 42:23
  Speaker 8: going to be kind of boots on the ground. early detection, observation,
• 42:27
  Speaker 8: and if you are a livestock producer, farmer, landowner, anything
• 42:32
  Speaker 8: like that, making sure that your animals are treated and
• 42:35
  Speaker 8: inspected appropriately. But as far as kind of what's going
• 42:39
  Speaker 8: on in modern times, so when the screw worm was
• 42:44
  Speaker 8: eradicated from the U.S. in 1966, it was pushed out
• 42:48
  Speaker 8: of the U.S., pushed down through Mexico, and passed this
• 42:52
  Speaker 8: natural border called the Darien Gap, by Panama and the
• 42:57
  Speaker 8: flies were kind of down in their regular normal zone
• 43:00
  Speaker 8: of South America. So they're endemic there. And this kind
• 43:04
  Speaker 8: of natural gap, which included like water, a bunch of
• 43:08
  Speaker 8: dense forests that the flies didn't really like that. And
• 43:11
  Speaker 8: then kind of continuous releasing of sterile flies allowed screwworm
• 43:16
  Speaker 8: to stay back in its endemic area and kind of
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: away from Mexico and away from the U.S. But where
• 43:23
  Speaker 8: we're at now, is that natural barrier has reduced with
• 43:27
  Speaker 8: habitat fragmentation and habitat reduction to where a lot of
• 43:31
  Speaker 8: that land has turned into pasture land. And on pasture land,
• 43:35
  Speaker 8: not only is there clearance of those dense forests, but
• 43:38
  Speaker 8: cattle are on pasture land. And we've been talking about
• 43:41
  Speaker 8: how much these flies love cattle. It's just a big
• 43:44
  Speaker 8: piece of meat, essentially. And so that is why they
• 43:49
  Speaker 8: make kind of a perfect setup for these flies. And
• 43:51
  Speaker 8: so that, and also the Legal and illegal transport of
• 43:55
  Speaker 8: cattle up from South America into Mexico and the U.S.
• 43:59
  Speaker 8: has allowed this fly to kind of break past some
• 44:01
  Speaker 8: of the previously set barriers and now move more northward
• 44:05
  Speaker 8: than we have seen over the last decade since it's
• 44:08
  Speaker 8: been eradicated.
• 44:10
  Speaker 9: Is this something that we need to be paying attention
• 44:12
  Speaker 9: to somewhat urgently?
• 44:14
  Speaker 8: So this is something that is definitely on the radar,
• 44:17
  Speaker 8: not only for Texas Parks and Wildlife, but also the
• 44:21
  Speaker 8: Texas Animal Health Commission. our human health, state service as well,
• 44:26
  Speaker 8: but also federally too. This is disease that has a
• 44:30
  Speaker 8: lot of potential to affect food and public health. And
• 44:34
  Speaker 8: of course, we take that very seriously here in America,
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: and we want to do everything we can to protect
• 44:40
  Speaker 8: our food supply and our people as well. And so
• 44:43
  Speaker 8: this is a disease that is certainly being monitored very aggressively.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: USDA has a website that shows where detections are being
• 44:52
  Speaker 8: found in livestock and domestic animals in Mexico. We're sending
• 44:56
  Speaker 8: USDA scientists and veterinarians down there to help out Mexico
• 45:00
  Speaker 8: as well with their detections. Currently, when we're doing this interview,
• 45:05
  Speaker 8: of course, I want to say screwworm has not been
• 45:07
  Speaker 8: found in the U.S. It is still south of the U.S.
• 45:10
  Speaker 8: with the closest current detections being in Tamaulipas, still about
• 45:14
  Speaker 8: 200 miles away. But we're talking about a fly that
• 45:19
  Speaker 8: in 2022 wasn't really on the radar for moving upward.
• 45:23
  Speaker 8: And now in the last three or four years, it's
• 45:26
  Speaker 8: come up from South America through Central America and Mexico.
• 45:29
  Speaker 8: So it has moved pretty quickly over the last couple
• 45:32
  Speaker 8: of years. The really great part about trying to make
• 45:36
  Speaker 8: the best out of a situation, right, is everybody is
• 45:39
  Speaker 8: all hands on deck for this. Not only the state
• 45:42
  Speaker 8: and federal agencies that I mentioned, but NGOs, universities, pretty
• 45:47
  Speaker 8: much everyone who can try to do something, whether it's
• 45:52
  Speaker 8: putting up game cameras somewhere or providing some type of
• 45:55
  Speaker 8: database so people can report any type of concerns that
• 45:59
  Speaker 8: they have, creating a inspection system, things like that. There
• 46:04
  Speaker 8: are a lot of different people in a lot of
• 46:07
  Speaker 8: different areas coming together to all work together to see
• 46:11
  Speaker 8: what they can do to help prevent this from coming
• 46:13
  Speaker 8: into the U.S. to mitigate things not only for us,
• 46:17
  Speaker 8: but for other countries as well, and to work on
• 46:20
  Speaker 8: an international level to get screwworm pushed back down into
• 46:24
  Speaker 8: its natural unendemic areas and, you know, away from the U.S.,
• 46:28
  Speaker 8: but also Mexico and Central America.
• 46:32
  Speaker 9: We're back with Dr. Sarah Wyckoff, a Texas Parks and
• 46:35
  Speaker 9: Wildlife veterinarian who's working to help prevent the spread of
• 46:38
  Speaker 9: screwworms back into the United States. How is this affecting
• 46:43
  Speaker 9: your day-to-day work?
• 46:44
  Speaker 8: Yeah, so we've been monitoring screwworm, oh gosh, at least
• 46:48
  Speaker 8: a year and a half, I want to say now.
• 46:49
  Speaker 8: You know, when the numbers kind of started to creep
• 46:52
  Speaker 8: up through South America and then when they started to
• 46:55
  Speaker 8: get into Mexico. And so this has been something that's
• 46:58
  Speaker 8: been on not only Texas Parks and Wildlife's radar, but
• 47:02
  Speaker 8: Texas Animal Health Commission and the Department of State Health
• 47:04
  Speaker 8: Services during that same time frame too. We've been meeting weekly,
• 47:09
  Speaker 8: biweekly with all of those agencies and our federal agencies
• 47:13
  Speaker 8: as well. There's been a lot of discussions, webinars, meetings,
• 47:18
  Speaker 8: talking about how we can all unify as one front
• 47:22
  Speaker 8: and making sure that we're all on the same page
• 47:24
  Speaker 8: as far as responding, getting the information needed for appropriate
• 47:28
  Speaker 8: epidemiological investigations, getting everything in line for our ag partners
• 47:34
  Speaker 8: and our domestic animal partners as far as treatments and preventatives.
• 47:37
  Speaker 8: So this has been something that has for sure been,
• 47:40
  Speaker 8: you know, every day worked with. And we've also established
• 47:44
  Speaker 8: a New World Screwworm Task Force within Texas with those
• 47:47
  Speaker 8: agencies as well, where again, this is something that we're
• 47:51
  Speaker 8: working on every single day is making sure that we
• 47:54
  Speaker 8: have all of our ducks in a row and also
• 47:57
  Speaker 8: making sure that we are doing what we can to
• 47:59
  Speaker 8: keep screwworm out of not only Texas, but the U.S.
• 48:03
  Speaker 19: As well.
• 48:04
  Speaker 9: I guess I'm wondering what the bigger picture is here.
• 48:08
  Speaker 9: So what if the screwworm comes back? Is that going
• 48:11
  Speaker 9: to have a big impact on Texans and Americans? And
• 48:15
  Speaker 9: I guess, why are we talking about it from a
• 48:17
  Speaker 9: TPWD perspective?
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: So screwworm coming back, it would create a really big
• 48:22
  Speaker 8: ripple effect. And so while it might be easy to think, oh,
• 48:25
  Speaker 8: it's just another fly, how bad could flies be, right?
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: We have them all around us all the time anyway.
• 48:31
  Speaker 8: And the issue with this fly is because it creates
• 48:34
  Speaker 8: that ripple effect, it can cause a lot of damage
• 48:38
  Speaker 8: not only to the economy and to agriculture, but also
• 48:41
  Speaker 8: wildlife as well. Again, human health, this is a fly
• 48:44
  Speaker 8: that can infest people. And so those larvae, again, they
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: like warm-blooded mammals, and we are warm-blooded mammals. And so
• 48:52
  Speaker 8: this is something that we wouldn't have to think about
• 48:55
  Speaker 8: for just cattle and how could that potentially affect cattle production,
• 48:59
  Speaker 8: raising cattle, and the prices of beef, things like that.
• 49:03
  Speaker 8: But we also have to think about our wildlife species
• 49:05
  Speaker 8: as well. Deer are a perfect animal for screwworm because
• 49:09
  Speaker 8: they're a big animal. There's a lot of muscle and
• 49:12
  Speaker 8: meat on them and they move around a lot so
• 49:14
  Speaker 8: they can provide area for larvae to kind of drop
• 49:18
  Speaker 8: off and pupate and expand. the range even more for screwworm.
• 49:22
  Speaker 8: There are also some reports from documents back in the
• 49:26
  Speaker 8: 30s where landowners report up to 80% of fawn crops
• 49:29
  Speaker 8: and deer in their area failed. And some of that
• 49:32
  Speaker 8: has contributed to what they think could have been screwworm
• 49:35
  Speaker 8: in some of the really, really bad infestation years. But unfortunately,
• 49:38
  Speaker 8: at the same time, there's not a lot of historical
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: data on how screwworm has affected wildlife because it was
• 49:44
  Speaker 8: so focused on, you know, livestock and food back then.
• 49:47
  Speaker 8: So we really don't even know potentially how harmful this
• 49:52
  Speaker 8: could be for a native species. But we also have
• 49:55
  Speaker 8: to remember the human dimensions part of this all. People
• 49:59
  Speaker 8: are used to seeing something that is unfortunately as graphic
• 50:04
  Speaker 8: looking and as gory looking as new world screwworm. especially
• 50:08
  Speaker 8: in their backyard. It's something that will be very, very difficult,
• 50:12
  Speaker 8: I think, for some people to see and realize is
• 50:16
  Speaker 8: out there. And I think that's kind of a bigger
• 50:19
  Speaker 8: part of the larger effect that screw room could have
• 50:21
  Speaker 8: outside of everything physically that it could do is also
• 50:24
  Speaker 8: just the effect on how people are seeing the nature
• 50:27
  Speaker 8: around them.
• 50:28
  Speaker 9: Yeah, even as somebody who is outside a lot and
• 50:32
  Speaker 9: reports on wildlife and the outdoors, I can't say I'm
• 50:35
  Speaker 9: not just a little bit freaked out by this whole thing.
• 50:40
  Speaker 9: And I imagine there's a lot of other people who
• 50:42
  Speaker 9: are in the same boat. Should we be scared?
• 50:46
  Speaker 8: Well, the important thing is to not be scared, to
• 50:48
  Speaker 8: not panic. It's very normal for us to be concerned
• 50:51
  Speaker 8: or worried about something that we're unfamiliar with. Really, what
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: we're telling a lot of people now is, you know,
• 50:56
  Speaker 8: ask questions, ask your biologists about what you can do,
• 51:00
  Speaker 8: what you can see, what they want you to do
• 51:02
  Speaker 8: if you have any concerns. You know, go to our website,
• 51:06
  Speaker 8: Texas A & M AgriLife website, USDA websites. There's a
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: lot of information and education on there about what is screwworm,
• 51:15
  Speaker 8: what citizens and the general public can do when it
• 51:18
  Speaker 8: comes to reporting any concerns for screwworm, protecting their livestock,
• 51:23
  Speaker 8: their pets against screwworm as well. And then also making
• 51:27
  Speaker 8: sure that you have a veterinarian that you can contact
• 51:30
  Speaker 8: in case you do have any concerns for maybe finding
• 51:33
  Speaker 8: screwworm on one of your animals. That's also going to
• 51:35
  Speaker 8: be the same person who can come out, inspect, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 8: treat your cat, your dog, your cattle as well. And
• 51:42
  Speaker 8: so that's going to be very important for people to
• 51:44
  Speaker 8: know is that this disease is very treatable. You just
• 51:47
  Speaker 8: have to be able to catch it early, catch it
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: on time, and then also make sure you're doing things
• 51:51
  Speaker 8: to prevent an infestation from coming back. So when it
• 51:56
  Speaker 8: comes to diseases, something that can be worked with and
• 51:59
  Speaker 8: has options, which is good. There's a lot of different
• 52:03
  Speaker 8: steps and things that people can do to help educate
• 52:06
  Speaker 8: themselves and to help themselves understand what their role in
• 52:11
  Speaker 8: all of this is because this is for everybody. We
• 52:14
  Speaker 8: will be relying a lot on what people are seeing
• 52:17
  Speaker 8: out there, what they're finding out there. And so I
• 52:21
  Speaker 8: think just kind of pulling it back and just remembering
• 52:23
  Speaker 8: that we're all in this together.
• 52:26
  Speaker 9: What can I and other Texans do to help?
• 52:30
  Speaker 16: Well, I think If you see something, say something, report something.
• 52:35
  Speaker 16: If you're a landowner and you see wildlife that is
• 52:39
  Speaker 16: behaving differently, is confused, has open wounds on it, unfortunately
• 52:45
  Speaker 16: you may see the maggots themselves on there feeding on
• 52:47
  Speaker 16: the flesh, report that to us at Texas Parks and
• 52:50
  Speaker 16: Wildlife on our website. We have a place for you
• 52:53
  Speaker 16: to do that.
• 52:54
  Speaker 9: To report a suspected screwworm case, call a Texas Animal
• 52:57
  Speaker 9: Health Commission veterinarian on call at this number.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: 1-800-550-8242.
• 53:02
  Speaker 9: Reach out to your.
• 53:08
  Speaker 16: Local county biologist also. That's an important contact point for you.
• 53:12
  Speaker 9: And we've already heard from Sarah about why TPWD is
• 53:16
  Speaker 9: involved in this fight. But can you tell me a
• 53:19
  Speaker 9: little more about the potential impact of New World Screw
• 53:22
  Speaker 9: Worm on Texas wildlife?
• 53:24
  Speaker 16: Yeah, as Sarah said in the episode, I mean, it
• 53:27
  Speaker 16: could be critically impactful. We've had in the past, when
• 53:31
  Speaker 16: screwworm has been here in Texas, significant impact on wildlife,
• 53:35
  Speaker 16: especially newborn fawns who are really susceptible in terms of
• 53:39
  Speaker 16: white-tailed deer. But you think of all the warm-blooded species.
• 53:43
  Speaker 5: That are giving birth.
• 53:45
  Speaker 16: And when they give birth, those little ones are really
• 53:47
  Speaker 16: susceptible at that point. So we just need to be aware.
• 53:51
  Speaker 16: We need to get on top of it. We have
• 53:53
  Speaker 16: the expertise to be able to share information. with landowners.
• 53:58
  Speaker 16: And also, I really want to stress here, companion animals
• 54:01
  Speaker 16: can be at risk as well. So those dogs and
• 54:04
  Speaker 16: cats and other critters that we hold close, we also
• 54:08
  Speaker 16: need to be looking out for them.
• 54:10
  Speaker 9: What else do you think we need to know about
• 54:12
  Speaker 9: the new world screwworm?
• 54:13
  Speaker 16: Well, I think it's important to know that your Texas
• 54:16
  Speaker 16: state government is on top of it. The governor has
• 54:20
  Speaker 16: established a response team that is led by both the
• 54:25
  Speaker 16: Texas Animal Health Commission and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department.
• 54:29
  Speaker 16: It is made up of stakeholders that are in domestic
• 54:32
  Speaker 16: livestock industry, that are part of other state agencies, that
• 54:37
  Speaker 16: are wildlife stakeholders, veterinarians, etc. And that coordination is critical,
• 54:43
  Speaker 16: and that is taking place at the state level. We're
• 54:45
  Speaker 16: also working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which is
• 54:49
  Speaker 16: the lead federal agency, along with the U.S. Fish and
• 54:52
  Speaker 16: Wildlife Service Environmental Protection agencies.
• 54:55
  Speaker 5: So those efforts are.
• 54:56
  Speaker 16: Going on right now and have been critically important to
• 55:00
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