The dead rats from West Java mentioned in Rodent Rage (see below—Ed) are never taken to East Java. Nevertheless, a rat's tail was recently found in bakso (meatball) soup at Pak Min's warung (streetside foodstall), in Situbondo. As a result, no-one visited the warung owned by Pujo Sumarto for the following two weeks.

On a Monday at the end of August, things took a turn for the worse. Pujiati, a nurse at the PTPN XI Elizabeth Hospital bou