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What is a screwworm?

What is a screwworm? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The larva of the fly Cochliomyia hominivorax (New World screwworm) or Chrysomya bezziana (Old World screwworm). The larva can be parasitic in humans and animals and are distinctive in eating living flesh of mammals, unlike most maggots, which eat only dead flesh.
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He joined FAO in 1986 and shouldered several responsibilities, the last being Senior Operations Officer for the New World Screwworm Eradication Program.
Studies in Costa Rica showed that screwworm flies prefer thick, densely forested areas to open pastures.
The sterile insect technique was first used to control the screwworm fly in the southern United States and other areas.
You one-W deworm when infested By two-W dewworms, much detested, But I'll bet a sore with screwworm you never saw a three-W dewwworm.
They had grown from eggs planted by the fly, a New World Army screwworm fly, in Peru.

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