Posted on 10/04/2014 6:32:53 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Help me out here.
I would assume the military heading into the hot zone will get shots upon shots to protect them from everything they have a shot for. (sorry about grammar here)
Am I wrong? Probably, given this cluster freak we have running things.
Malaria?
They’re worried about malaria?
SMH
I thought we figured out malaria back in Panama Canal days.
DDT
Buck Ofama #amiright
Malaria is a pretty nasty disease.
They can take Chloroquine pills to prevent Malaria.
I’m getting to the point where cancer doesn’t even scare me anymore and it runs in my family. Ebola, for me, is towering over the rest of the nasties.
Malaria doesn’t seem nearly as bad as ebola
Last I heard malaria won’t dissolve you
for preppers, buy wormwood or artemesia. artemesia is what was used against malaria. it works and is also anti-parasitical.
Malaria is still deadly. AFAIK, there are no shots to prevent malaria. A person can take 100mgs of doxycycline daily to help prevent malaria but it is not a 100% protection.
Malaria is also a very opportunistic illness. When a person’s immune system becomes compromised through another disease, the malaria parasite often seizes its chance and becomes active in the system.
In my experience, most malaria strains are now immune to chloroquin. Artemesia is good. Mefloquine (Larium) often has bad side effects. I avoid that drug.
Why do Eco freaks hate black Africans so much? Millions have been killed by their ban on DDT.
You just think you're being dissolved. Dead is dead.
A fond memory from SEA - when you paid for your meal at the O’Club you had to take an anti-malaria tablet. The only way to avoid it was to present a stamped receipt from earlier in the day.
Forgot to save my stamped receipt exactly once.
Given the recent news story about the cameraman from one of the networks contracting ebola without any contact with the sick, the question of it possibly being contracted through an insect vector similar to malaria has crossed my mind.
One reason for the concern is that members of the military who know that they are going to be deployed to an area where malaria is common start to take their antimalarial drugs several weeks before they leave. Obama in sending our military into harm's way to help with the Ebola epidemic would not know enough to consider that advance notice is needed for such a deployment.
By the way, the reason malaria is STILL a problem for much of the world - Rachel Carson's demonization of DDT in The Silent Spring back in the early sixties.
Wait, what?
How did we get from 365/year to 100,000/year?
This is the very reason why we stock up on preventative and treatments prior to returning to the States. It is scary to think you have malaria in the states as the medicos have no clue how to treat it. I'll trust them, barely, for a diagnosis, but then, I'll treat myself.
Malaria is common in all tropical/hot countries. I am sure I had it a few times growing up in India. My mother knew exactly what to do. It was plenty of quinine pills. Always recovered without any leftover effects. May be there is one left over effect...I still like carbonated quinine water.
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