Most Exotic Disease

I wish I knew the name of what happened to me after my trip to Ecuador. I was in Quito which has a very high elevation and you are not suppose to eat late at night let alone anything fried. So I ignored that when homemade empanadas were served at a party around 10pm. I flew home the next day, even went out to see some music that night. The next say, my body exploded from every direction for about 6 days. I could barely get out of bed, thankfully I was at home. Till this day I have never puked so violently. I wish I knew what it was. For the sake of exoticism, I will call it eject-o-ramatitus, of which I had the latin version. ejectoramatuteria

I've had a couple exotic (though somewhat self-inflicted) diseases. The first one was CarHititis, which I contracted after staying up all night on a night train from Florence, Italy to Munich, Germany for Octoberfest. Sleep deprived and beer-soaked, I stepped into a street without looking both ways and was hit by a relatively fast-moving BMW. I was fine, but did take myself straight to the hospital, just in case.
The other foreign-land health scare came after eating a plate full of pasta with shellfish while living in the Dominican Republic. Trouble was I'd also had half a bottle of Rum, so I didn't know it was food poisoning until two days later. I went to a hospital in Santo Domingo, but decided shortly thereafter to rough it at home with Pedialyte.
I lived to tell the tale.

Nursing my friend who got malaria in Indonesia back at our house in Bangkok was an intense two month experience, but I've been pretty lucky. I got a brown recluse spider bite whose flesh eating poison ate a hole in my calf. I thought I got the bite in Asia since I had just returned from traveling and living there for two years, but it turned out I got the bite right here in my own backyard of Northern California. Still I ask, why is it that Mexico will hands down, no matter what, always give me diarrhea, yet I can travel for one year through Asia, eat anything off the street, and be disease-free? No rhyme or reason, you just never know.