 Heinz says they want to reduce deaths from drug misuse, improve maternal health, increase access to care, and reduce cancer rates and improve screenings. A nine-year-old boy continues to recover from a bite to the leg from an alligator that occurred while he was swimming with his family in Lake Pontchartrain this past weekend. LSU AgCenter alligator specialist Mark Shirley says alligators are in just about every freshwater and even mildly brackish waters. They're kind of estimating somewhere between three and four million alligators