Mozzies

A few nights ago in the delivery room while a mom was pushing I was frantically smashing mosquitoes and the midwife said to me completely seriously “Oh don’t worry, that’s just a dengue fever mosquito.” I told her that I did not want dengue fever OR malaria and she proceeded to describe the malaria mosquito bites as really itchy, red angry, welt-like bites and I pointed to the 10 plus such bites on my legs and said “like these?” and she said “Yes!” She wanted to know if I had been to some certain river where the malaria mosquitoes hang out - I haven’t – and told me that there is no malaria in Port Vila. So who knows I may be brewing a wicked case of dengue or malaria or maybe not but regardless I am smashing every mosquito I see!