no, one more in honor of Egypt

*laughing out loud*

It couldn’t possibly be better timed, as I sit at home in Cairo, on swine flu vacation:

“Aethiopia and Egypt have been stigmatized in every age as the original source and seminary of the plague. In a damp, hot, stagnating air, this African fever is generated from the putrefaction of animal substances, and especially from the swarms of locusts, not less destructive to mankind in their death than in their lives.”