[beebuster2000]

and is transmitted by a punch of womanlike silt fly that punch putrescent rodents called stone hyraxes.

[firebrand]

Dubbed “Rose of Jericho,” a illness is caused by protozoan parasites that go to a classification Leishmania

I was afraid this was satire. So glad it's true.

[piasa]

“a punch” apparently means “bite” or bites.

Stone hyraxes are most certainly not rodents... though they sot of resemble marmots.

Their nearest relatives are, oddly enough, the elephant, manatee, and dugong.

[Yardstick]

I’ve gotten about three good chuckles out of that one. What a sentence!