I think there are now over a million of these damned things in Tennessee alone. Are they everywhere, or just a southern thing?
I live out in the sticks, and there are five of them within a five mile radius of here.
Fugger got me in a cabin in Alaska. The surgeons were going to amputate my lower leg after the ABs and steroid creams didnt stop it from trying to turn to Gangrene. Dr R Bartlett saved it with iodine gas TX I described to Dr Doc Rocket on the Fire iirc who ended up saving someone's limb with that TX years later.