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bcr229 04-12-2019 05:04 PM

Bloodsucking worms in pythons are killing Florida snakes
 
IIRC one of the hurricanes that hit Florida - Andrew? - clobbered an import facility and that's the source of a lot of the Florida burms. Many importers don't treat for internal parasites. So, it would make sense that any burms released before being sold and treated would have unfortunately spread any parasites they were carrying at the time.

https://amp.floridatoday.com/amp/3435198002

Socratic Monologue 04-12-2019 05:28 PM

Thanks for this!

Link to the study:

https://www.researchgate.net/publica...in_Florida_USA

Link to a 2017 study with much the same findings:

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/...1002/ece3.3557


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