Hmm, dengue

Dengue is also known as breakbone fever, but it doesn't make you dance like James Brown. It's spread with the help of an elegant black-and-white mosquito called Aedes aegypti (above) who likes to help herself - very gently and quietly - to a modest amount of blood of Homo sapiens in the morning. She's been knocking down my co-workers like skittles. Readers in Jaffna: cover up.