Dengue Fever
What’s it like to get sick in Cuba?
I have dengue, a vile and potentially life-threatening virus given to me by an Aedes mosquito. For good reason, it…
The good, the bad and the grotesque: the mind-blowing diversity of parasites
Maggots, fleas, lice and tapeworms are scarcely welcome companions, but we eliminate parasites at our peril, says the entomologist Dino J. Martins
Reluctant servant of the Raj: Burma Sahib, by Paul Theroux, reviewed
Few personal details survive about Eric Blair’s life as a policeman in Burma, making his years in the East fertile ground for the novelist
