tiny pissing sandflies. Literally. Tiny sandflies that urinate on you, for whatever reason, producing a welt on skin twenty times the size if the offending insect itself.
why would it want to do that?
In conjunction with the giant drilling mossies they cause ulcerated raised marks all over the already tender skin.
Mossies with a proboscis that drills into you. Dozens of them on you.
'THEY GET YOU WHILE YOU SLEEP', says Tropical Skin-Disease Boy.
"The worse thing you can do is scratch", the local people say.
"No matter how good it initially feels. Resist. Or you're in a whole heap of trouble then"
Guess it's a whole heap of leprotic trouble then.
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