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To: ne1410s

There is little to fear in that country except the mosquitoes....

Make sure that she has plenty of DEET bug spray and she uses her mosquito netting properly....

My 21 year old daughter went there last year and didn’t seal here mosquito netting properly on a jungle campout. Multiple bites....4 days later she came down with Dengue fever.

When we flew her back to Miami, she spent initially 10 days in the hospital, released, then had to be readmitted after 1 week for another 7 days. It took her 3 months to recover and she is a very healthy athletic young woman.


31 posted on 07/14/2011 12:34:59 PM PDT by nevergore ("It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.")
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To: nevergore

We are studying all of this very carefully. We don’t expect her to be going into wilderness areas but her body chemistry happens to attract mosquitoes. We will equip her with DEET & permethrin for the clothes & luggage. We are even starting th 2 week build up for malaria antibiotics on Monday.


44 posted on 07/14/2011 1:24:01 PM PDT by ne1410s (Psalm 109:8 May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.)
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