Strange bedfellows.

Has the next pandemic already begun?

Sewer engineer’s map of Washington, D.C. with infectious disease fatalities highlighted, 1894, Geography and Maps Division, Library of Congress, Washington.

Welcome to this week’s Not in Dispatches, where we will be lifting up the mattress, pulling out a flashlight and closely examining the geopolitics of bed bugs.

Down and out in Paris and London.

A stran…