This is an on-going blow by blow documentation of my sand fly bites – 20 plus bites – from Palawan – which may have infected me with protozoan leishmaniasis, malaria or who knows what exotic microbes they have there. What is significant is I came down with a severe cold, mucus… can you believe it? Being on a mostly raw paleolithic diet the whole year I have never gotten a cold… except after those 20 sand fly bites. [Read more…]