From: mcdonald@aries.scs.uiuc.edu (J. D. McDonald)
Subject: Re: jiggers
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In article <78846@cup.portal.com> mmm@cup.portal.com (Mark Robert Thorson) writes:

>This wouldn't happen to be the same thing as chiggers, would it?
>A truly awful parasitic affliction, as I understand it.  Tiny bugs
>dig deeply into the skin, burying themselves.  Yuck!  They have these
>things in Oklahoma.

Close. My mother comes from Gainesville Tex, right across the border.
They claim to be the chigger capitol of the world, and I believe them.
When I grew up in Fort Worth it was bad enough, but in Gainesville
in the summer an attack was guaranteed.

Doug McDonald
