A statement from the U. S. Department of Agriculture said 25 illnesses are under investigation in Connecticut, Florida, Indiana, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

美国农业部门的一项声明说道25个患者正在康捏狄格，佛罗里达，印第安娜，缅因，新泽西，纽约，俄亥俄，滨西法尼亚接受观察。

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Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.

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According to Denise Feiber, a spokeswoman for the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, more than 1, 000 of the snails are being caught each week in Miami-Dade county and 117, 000 in total since the first snail was spotted by a homeowner in September 2011.

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Since Texas' refusal of the congressional compromise, Florida and Arizona have applied to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), which administers the program on the federal level, for waivers that would allow them to enact limited pilot programs.

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