Posted on 07/30/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Oh, nasty. I hope you have recovered now.
Well yeah. Except for the nearly $100K I’ve spent on my teeth in the ensuing years.
My parents were told the vaccine was ‘safe and effective’. No one told them about the ‘miss’ rate. They never would have taken me to Africa had they known it was only ~50% effective.
Muscle aches and pains, colds and flu and other problems caused by energy imbalances.
LOL
It’ll give you some good ones that’s for sure.
When I was little I visited my Grandma’s farm .... she handed me some tweezers and a kitten and told me there was a worm in its skull that I needed to pick out as soon as it came up for air. She added, be gentle so it doesn’t break off just ease it out.
I stared at her in disbelief, then peered at the poor kitten as Grandma walked away like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Never knew such parasites existed in what I’d always thought was a pretty normal place. Ticks are one thing, but a worm that bores into a kitten’s skull? That gave me a few nightmares later, but I did get it out in one piece.
“If any of that is too daunting, just skip the shower. Everyone expects backpackers to be a bit smelly anyway.”
they forgot to add “with maggots under their scalp too”
Anywhere there are sub or tropical forests in Asia, I'd get it. Anywhere in SA, CA or Africa, I'd get it. It hurts and works you over physically but better than the plague.
Everything is a matter of probabilities. I’m sure people come down with some or other tropical disease in Anchorage now and then.
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