U.S. NEWS: "Developing World's Parasites, Disease Hit U.S.: Researchers Say Infections Spread by Bug Bites, Larvae Are Flourishing Along Border and in Other Pockets of Poverty," by Stephanie Simon and Betsy McKay, Wall Street Journal, 22-23 August 2009.

Where Gap meets Core, the Seam is teaming with parasites. And where do they expand inside the Core? Inside the pockets of poverty, or the Gap-like chunks that litter the landscape.

One expert says these parasites will do ten times more damage than swine flu (H1N1), but that they're on nobody's radar.