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A ROYAL MENTION!

A ROYAL MENTION!

So much for traveling incognito, our reputation is beginning to travel before us. We were delighted that news of our effects has received a royal mention! King Ashurbanipal of Assyria, Babylonia and Egypt wrote about the human symptoms of our presence on his famous...
A NEW WORLD

A NEW WORLD

Throughout the world we have benefited from the voyages of men and women over local and international boundaries. We are however particularly indebted to the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores for their generous offer of transcontinental travel in the 16th Century....
DOGS OF WAR

DOGS OF WAR

Trained as a dog of war he had a taste for human flesh in a more savage way than we do. He was involved in some extremely unsavoury behaviour. Our deadly work is undertaken slowly and invisibly from the inside, Becerrillo and his friends were a vicious, obvious, and...
DOG RESERVOIRS

DOG RESERVOIRS

We call the dog our ‘reservoir’, a place to gather and socialise between humans and sand flies. We were rather worried about whether we would find onward travel options in a new continent, but we should not have been so troubled. The South American sand fly was a more...
OPPORTUNE MEETING WITH A PHYSICIAN

OPPORTUNE MEETING WITH A PHYSICIAN

During our time in Syria in the mid 18th century our skin-living cousins met with a physician named Alexander Russell, who called our effects the ‘Aleppo Boil’. We are of the opinion that encouraging this kind of publicity is dangerous, and can cause deleterious...