Presidio County

That's great news.

Two active cases in Crockett and Presidio County still exist, and hopefully they will get those under control here pretty soon.

Now, we have hunting season just around the corner.

For hunters, be sure and monitor all livestock and wildlife because wounds in animals need to be sampled and get those checked as soon as possible.

In terms of the story, it kind of blossomed from there because once Image said yes and we kind of had an idea of, you know, what this book would be, once we got the green light, it was like, okay, well, yeah, it's one thing to have an idea, but what is this comic? You know, if we get to do many issues, you know, what is it? So I kind of broke down what the story, stories were going to be with the with the series was going to be and it sort of broke down each arc and each arc was going to take place in a different time and with different characters and different genres um and one of those arcs was going to be how how comes that allison ranch um And, you know, I wanted to do a high story and there's another couple of stories that we're going to do going forward.

Um, but yeah, it just kind of broke down this idea of this, uh, West Texas County, um, uh, fictional version of, uh, Presidio County and Jeff Davis County in West Texas and which is on the border.

And, uh, just kind of dealing with, you know, the characters that live there through a number of decades, but also the things that happen, um, in the county, in their lives and, and how they deal with those things.

Yeah.

Um, and this is just an update, so I don't know if this has even made it into the, the numbers there.

But the case was detected in Presidio County.

The parasite was found on the hind limb of the animal.

So, you know, as mentioned, so we're up to 49 animals in, in, in all Texas and New Mexico.

Only two of those are now active.

The most recent case was in a horse in Presidio County, which sits on the Mexican border.

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A working ranch horse in Presidio County has become the first horse in the United States diagnosed with New World Screwworm this century.

According to the U.S. Equestrian Federation, the infestation was detected last week.

The New World Screwworm is a parasitic fly whose larvae feed on the living tissue of warm-blooded animals.

What is strange, though? Susan, I'm desperately trying to figure out what is strange about it.

It's a real desolate area to come in with all of that large equipment and bring all of those people into Presidio County and all of that.

It's it's.

very odd that you would do out of nowhere, just start building stuff from making roads and big bend.

[laughs] I haven't done a screw worm update lately 'cause nothing had really changed a lot, but we have the first equine case of New World screw worm in the United States, and it's been confirmed in a working ranch horse in West Texas.

It was detected on September 9th in the hind limb of a ranch horse in Presidio County, wherever that is.

The origin of the infestation has not been publicly identified.

I think we c- all know how it happens, [laughs] so it was probably a cut on the horse that went unnoticed, and then they got in there.