A protester shouts anti-American slogans while holding a tire to be added to a burning barricade during a protest against the government's request for an international military force, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, October 21, 2022. (Photo by Joseph Odelyn/AP Photo)

Mexican wrestler known as Mini Psycho walks inside the Basilica of Our Lady Guadalupe during the annual pilgrimage in Mexico City, Mexico August 25, 2016. (Photo by Carlos Jasso/Reuters)

An elephant tries to eat leaves during a religious procession called Jal Yatra, ahead of the annual Rath Yatra, or chariot procession of Hindu god Lord Jagannath, in Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, June 11, 2025. (Photo by Ajit Solanki/AP Photo)

An Indian Sadhu, or Hindu holy man, performs a yoga position on International Yoga Day at Kamakhya temple in Gauhati, India, Friday, June 21, 2019. (Photo by Anupam Nath/AP Photo)

Actress Tiffany Haddish sits on top of two garbage cans after getting shoved down by passerbys with a scraped knee only to have Billy Crystal come to her rescue filming “Here Today” in Brooklyn, New York on October 28, 2019. (Photo by Christopher Peterson/Splash News and Pictures)

A girl carries breads on her head as she walks in the snow, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Tuesday, February 8, 2022. (Photo by Hussein Malla/AP Photo)

In this April 27, 2020 photo, a health worker helps another as she fainted because of exhaustion and long working hours during a swab test drive for COVID 19, in New Delhi, India. Two and a half months of nationwide lockdown kept numbers of infections relatively low in India. But with restrictions easing in recent weeks, cases have shot up, raising questions about whether authorities have done enough to avert catastrophe. Half of Delhi’s 8,200 hospital beds dedicated to COVID-19 patients are already full and officials are projecting more than half a million cases in the city alone by July 31. (Photo by Manish Swarup/AP Photo)

The civilised world lies on its knees, a sickness wracking its body. The affliction causes a necrotising of tissues so perfectly uniform in distribution that victims take on the appearance of corpses long before death occurs due to organ failure or secondary infections. ...