What does malaria do to you? Why isn’t it as prevalent in US?
Is doing away with some pesticides the reason?
There are two types, out of four, of malaria here. With tersiana malaria, we get a general malaise, aches, headaches, and low energy. I have never experienced the fever and chills which is portrayed in movies, etc. With tropical malaria, you get all that puts a whopping, crazy headache. You are usually sick for three to seven days and several weeks before your energy levels return.
You prep a blood slide yourself, take it or have it taken to a lab. They give you the results and based on what you have you begin treatment. There is no need to see a doctor. If you are not aware of your symptoms and the malaria is not caught in the early stages as I described, then, yes, you are a doc. You may need to be hospitalized. Malaria does kill.
In my experience, taking quinine just makes you wish you were dead. Until artesinate was developed, my experiences with the cures were much worse than the disease. Still, if I didn’t take the stuff, the malaria would have progressed to death.
Long term workers always bring malaria treatment to the states. It is easy to treat but if you develop it in the states, they go crazy in trying to treat. Much easier to do it ourselves.
Mosquito's is the problem. Yes when they did away with DDT it came back with a furry in Africa.The environmentalists got their way. I can remember here where I live near the Columbia River the DDT truck would come down the road spraying and us kids would run behind it. Stupid, but we are still alive at 80 years.
Malaria was controlled in the states by diligent spraying efforts. I remember trucks going through neighborhoods spraying billowing clouds of bug poison. It used to be quite prevalent. Wasn’t the old name for it, fever and argue?