Where you are literally at ground zero for that research here in Kerrville at this facility in 1966. After that facility, after that, after that product was developed, that science, I should say, was developed, In 1966, the continental US was declared free of the indigenous New World screwworm. That was in 1966. In 1986, the U.S. mexico Commission succeeded in pushing the New World Screwworm out of Mexico. 1986. (26:27–26:39)
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