Hard bitten

The BBC's Allan Little now stands alongside George W Bush, Ben Stiller, Amy Tan and Daryl Hall. The Scotsman reports this morning that our intrepid correspondent is suffering from Lyme's Disease - from a tick bite, not in some foreign battlefield, but on holiday in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

The ticks give you a dose of the bacteria Borrelia Burgdorferi Sensu Stricto, usually cleared by anti-biotics as long as you get to the so-and-so's fast enough. The disease gets its name from an outbreak in 1975, in Lyme, Connecticut, some 150 miles down the coast from the Cape.