One last exciting update from Cusco before we leave for Queros: We have three bot flies in our group! Bot flies lay eggs on mosquitos, who then deposit the eggs in peoples skin, where they hatch into larva and grow. We realized last night that the ´infected bugbites´ that three friends had might very well be bot fly larva, so we took measures to get them out. First, we blew cigarett smoke onto them (the pictures of this are HILARIOUS; some of them may be on facebook by now). Then we taped raw meat over them for the night.
This morning, sure enough, the little larva came crawling out! If you´ve ever seen a worm crawling out of someone´s skin, you understand why I dont think I´ll be eating for a few days...
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