HAEMORRHAGIC FEVER

Yesterday's final illustration of icky things was a haemorrhagic fever virus. Several hours after doing the pink slime mold aethelium, and the typhoid fever bacteria.


Haemorrhagic fevers are mostly tropical, and occur on all continents. Very few are 'temperate' zone ailments.


Tropical zones have exceedingly much to recommend them. Exciting locales, interesting native populations, fascinating local cultures, and some mighty interesting cuisines. Plus wrenching poverty, high crime rates, frequent bloody civil wars, and mind-bendingly nasty assaults on your very physical survival from humans, animals, plants, and diseases.

Life can be cheap and brutal there.
But the food is often stellar.
Well worth a visit.
Great photos!

Just think of your friends' reactions when you tell them you spent several weeks in the hospital and almost died there! They'll be so jealous! Such an adventure!


"No, I can't remember a darn thing about the food, I was deathly ill and had visions while in the ICU. The hospital staff had given up on me, but then the local witchdoctor treated me with apple cider vinegar and manuka honey, and I recovered. I have found the meaning of life."


You stopped eating meat while there, and are now much more spiritual.
It was like a whole body cleanse. People pay for that.
Sometimes you still sing deliriously.
Flashbacks.



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