This is what happened in West Texas Stan
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140814191345.htm

Made it to OK
http://uplandjournal.ipbhost.com/topic/62631-parasitic-eye-worm-in-bobwhite-quail/

and this https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5338897/

and these https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.12330

It does seem that nature's way is to adjust over-population with a parasitic or infectious agent.

Not to get OT but Ebola is back in DRC and ticks & mosquitos, and the diseases they carry, are taking over; Zika, West Nile, RMSF, Lyme, several forms of Ehrlichiosis, and Chikungunya
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2018/p0501-vs-vector-borne.html

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