After spending the good part of my Friday lunch break regaling the ebullient staff writer from The Toronto Star — “Canada’s largest daily newspaper” — with stories about bites from raccoons, skunks and bats, kissing bugs that fall from thatched roofs to defecate on you, and how the West was lost to West Nile virus-bearing arthropods, I shouldn’t have been surprised that none of my quotes made the morning edition.