03-24-2018, 03:45 PM
Mongooses were brought to Hawaii in 1883. Surgeons were just beginning to recognize the need to sterilize instruments in the 1880s and the practice was slow to catch on. Why, pray tell, do some people say "Biocontrols are bad. Remember the rat vs mongoose" without following up with "And don't have surgery. Surgeons don't sterilize their instruments".