I am really enjoying the "Things I Learned as a Field Biologist" blog.

4. Don't let the doctor jab a needle into said burn zone to "probe the area"... it will only break the final barrier keeping the hookworms from your bloodstream and completing their nefarious life cycle by maturing in your lungs, growing large enough to make you cough them up, and subsequently swallow them so that they may hold an egg-laying bacchanal in your digestive tract.