I’m sorry for your friend. I assume he’s doing better now?
I’m over mine, except for the weakness. That’s from losing the red blood cells and so expect to have to take things easy for another six weeks. But otherwise, I responded well to the medicine. I am thanking God for coartem.
FWIW, if anyone needs a malaria prophylaxis, STAY AWAY FROM ALL FORMS OF MEFLOQUINNE! That is a dangerous drug with long-term neurological side-effects.
He’s fine now, but it was touch and go for a while.
He was in Papua New Guinea on a missionary trip.
Didn’t come down with symptoms until he was back here.
They tried quinine first, that’s all they had in the local hospital, but he had some bad reaction to it so they had to have some other drug flown in from somewhere...............