EXPERTS: MALARIA COULD THREATEN US MILITARY EBOLA MISSION IN WEST AFRICA

Breitbart ^ | Oct. 4, 2014 | by FRANCES MARTEL

[Jim Robinson]

Officials and medical personnel have expressed concern that American troops being deployed in Liberia to fight the spread of the Ebola virus may be at risk for contracting malaria, an often just-as-deadly disease more easily spread in an insecure sanitary atmosphere.

A local report from Denver's KUSA notes that, in the wake of Fort Carson, Colorado sending 160 troops to Liberia in the coming weeks, military medical personnel are beginning to engage with the possibility of troops contracting malaria. According to medical expert Dr. John Torres, one child dies every day in Africa from malaria, an astronomical figure. While Ebola can only be transmitted through contact with the bodily fluids of an infected person, individuals can contract malaria through mosquito bites, which puts many more people at risk and makes the potential for infection much higher.

Medical experts in Africa warn that there will likely be a simultaneous increase in deaths by unrelated infectious diseases in Ebola-affected regions, as medical resources go to containing the virus rather than combating other diseases. Reuters reports that malaria, diarrhea, and pneumonia are expected to kill many more people until the Ebola outbreak subsides -- and malaria already kills an average of 100,000 people per year in west Africa...

[jacquej]

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.

[Califreak]

Malaria?

They’re worried about malaria?

SMH

[jiggyboy]

I thought we figured out malaria back in Panama Canal days.

[null and void]

DDT

[goodwithagun]

Buck Ofama #amiright

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Malaria is a pretty nasty disease.

[Cementjungle]

They can take Chloroquine pills to prevent Malaria.

[Califreak]

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

[Secret Agent Man]

for preppers, buy wormwood or artemesia. artemesia is what was used against malaria. it works and is also anti-parasitical.

[Jemian]

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.

[Jemian]

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.

[Truth is a Weapon]

Why do Eco freaks hate black Africans so much? Millions have been killed by their ban on DDT.

[Jemian]

Last I heard malaria won’t dissolve you

You just think you're being dissolved. Dead is dead.

[Nip]

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.

[Domestic Church]

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.

[srmorton]

Malaria is still a deadly disease in many parts of the world. I once heard a talk given by the Medical Director of the UNC Hospital in Chapel Hill. One of the case studies that he told us about was a man from a small hospital in eastern NC who had not been properly diagnosed before he was "shipped out" to their hospital where he later died. The man had just returned from working in Africa and had not bothered to take his antimalarial preventative. The doctor said that anyone who has visited a country in the "malarial belt" who did not take the preventative should be assumed to have malaria unless they test negative for the disease.

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.

[Sherman Logan]

According to medical expert Dr. John Torres, one child dies every day in Africa from malaria, an astronomical figure. ... malaria already kills an average of 100,000 people per year in west Africa..

Wait, what?

How did we get from 365/year to 100,000/year?

[Jemian]

One of the case studies that he told us about was a man from a small hospital in eastern NC who had not been properly diagnosed before he was "shipped out" to their hospital where he later died.

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.

[entropy12]

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.