by jensouthern | Nov 6, 2018 | Blog
Sand flies and reptiles have been convenient vehicles as they spread around the world. We remember when we all used to live in Pangea, in much simpler times before we found our mammalian hosts. The travel was, quite frankly, very limited in comparison to today. We...
by jensouthern | Nov 7, 2018 | Blog
Some of our most memorable travels have been preserved for posterity by the gruesome tradition of mummification. We’ll never forget our hosts in Egypt, although we were again cursed with untimely death. Our population was thriving inside the bloodways, organs and...
by jensouthern | Nov 8, 2018 | Blog
The group residing in the liver were the first to notice that something was amiss when it was violently wrenched from its place in the body and placed in a jar. Those of us still in the veins were left to slowly dry out, parched for more than 70 days! It was more than...
by jensouthern | Nov 10, 2018 | Blog
There are several sides to our family, most notable are those of us that seek out the internal organs, and those that inhabit the skin. In Ecuador and Peru we were most notorious for traveling in the latter from as early as 100 A.D. We must remark on how delightful...
by jensouthern | Nov 9, 2018 | Blog
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...
by jensouthern | Nov 11, 2018 | Blog
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....
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