Bot Fly Makes a Photographer's Head Home - Charlie Hamilton James

National Geographic photographers have jobs that are perceived as glamorous, but Charlie Hamilton James' story might be considered cautionary for anybody who is pondering the profession: after going on several tropical shoots, including some to the Amazon River, he found that a bot fly had made James' head a home. He tried to allow the fly to mature, but the parasite's feeding on his head-tissue became too painful and he had to remove it. James was also infected with leishmaniasis, a parasitic disease that is considered curable, but unprofitable for large drug companies to develop better medications for. James shares his "Disgusting Disease Diaries" with Boyd.