Yuck, never like the idea of anything involving needles or blood in Africa. I always carry my own syringes in my medical kit for such emergencies. South Africa and ? may be OK, but some countries definitely are not.

Good luck to him, hopefully he didn't loose anything important. Spoke to him way back when about writing. And before that he was one of the writers that got me inflected with the safari and double rifles bug.

Interesting about the wartie though, lots of tourist camps have semi-tame warties wondering all around the camp. Wonder why this one went for him?

Lion hunt? Which country? Gryphon do you know?