Posted on 10/04/2014 6:32:53 PM PDT by 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...
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Perhaps they have shots or something better these days, but taking the pills was not a choice.
Couldn’t tell ya, I’ve been out for 30 years...
better crank up the GlaxoSmithKlein factories and make sure our guys have some of this:
Milestone for Child Malaria Vaccine. (BBC, July 2014)
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28541939
It is much higher by magnitudes. I suspect a typo is involved.
This is impossible! Malaria was eradicated with DDT in the seventies! Oh wait... DDT was eradicated by the Enviro nuts.
Correct you are about the side effects. I was having vision problems because of it and stopped taking it. Hell, we were 40 miles offshore of Nigeria (Drilling for Oil in 1983) and no mosquitoes I thought. I do not know where that little bastard came from, but I caught Malaria. Cyclic fever and cold shakes. The fever was rough but after it subsided you would be exhausted and sleep for a few hours. The cold shakes were the worse. In a 48 hour period you would be in your bunk nude sweating and semi-delirious to be followed by a few hours of deep sleep and then the cold shakes started. The cold shakes were the worst. You could not put on enough blankets to be warm. You would be curled up in a fetal position and the shakes would start. They shakes were your entire muscular system, particularly arms legs and chest.
You do not want to eat but should force yourself to. I lived on rice and butter and soup for two weeks. I did not want to eat anything but those were the easiest on my stomach and had good caloric value. I also lost 15 pounds in two weeks. Pain, deep bone pain. Your bones and joints hurt like hell. Walking up stairs was brutal. I was only 35 years old then.
I have about two or three cases of malaria every year. I’ve never had it as bad as you did. You are right about the rice and butter and soup. I go off Atkins when I have malaria as carbs are about the only thing I can keep down. The joint pain sound like my dengue fever. That was rough.
That mefloquine causes neurological problems. I experienced a depression so deep that when someone asked, “how are you?” I burst into tears. I’ll take the malaria next time!
The medicine of choice nowadays is artemesia or some form of it. Quinine is a staple if nothing else works. It just is kept as a last resort, however.
Interesting. Things that make you go hmmm.
There’s a way back thread with old school freepers. I was wondering about Mother Abigail,
She hasn’t posted since 8/5/2012
The last thing she wrote about was ebola
In the 8/5/2012 thread it says malaria can be confused with ebola.
Are they laying the groundwork for ill troops?
Well, at least he got the troops out of Iraq. /s
So many potential gifts derived from this - almost feels like Christmas...
Gee, if only there was something we could spray that could kill the skeeters that carry Malaria?
Wait, we do. DDT which was banned because of that nut bag Carsons book based on non science and scare mongering.
The Nuclear Option: Ebola Mission Not Worthy of Our Troops
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by Charles Hurt 3 Oct 2014 460 post a comment
The world’s supply of experimental Ebola drug runs dry just as U.S. troops are deployed to West Africa by a commander-in-chief who has never appeared to have much use for the military as an actual military force. He has deployed them there to fight, in all seriousness, the Ebola virus.
A week later, the commander is pictured stepping off Marine One. He offers the Marines guarding him with their lives a lazy half-salute, not even bothering to remove the paper coffee cup from his right hand.
Can one be blamed for wondering if just maybe this president doesn’t like America’s armed forces? Or, perhaps the better question is: How can anyone claim that President Obama has the thinnest shred of respect for America’s warriors when he goes and does something like this?
Of course, he did not plan for the world’s supply of ZMapp to vanish just as he deployed troops into the single most devastating outbreak of Ebola in known history. But the idea that — even with all the real militaristic threats we face around the world — the president chooses to send 3,000 soldiers into Liberia to somehow combat a deadly, highly-contagious virus is beyond explanation.
We are told our soldiers are supposed to train medical personnel. For what, how to use a bayonet?
We are told our soldiers are supposed to help set up new medical facilities. So, we are going to take the finest, most lethally effective military in world history and send them into a petri dish of death to set up tables and cots?
Dear Lord, what an insult.
Quinine is very expensive now, but it works on Malaria.
Military’s Malaria program
http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/nmrc/Pages/id_m.htm
My dad had it when he came home from WW2. He served 6 yrs under MacArthur.
Same thing for Flu shots, you didn’t get your pay check until you had 1.
Eco freaks hate humanity. They see us as aliens to the natural world.
Common core math.
News flash to our gummint geniuses: Malaria has been a problem there since the Brits started exploring it around, oh, I dunno, say 1820. Pushing two centuries if I have the match right.
About 6 years ago I was a task force surgeon for a mission to Liberia.
My primary goal was to insure that not one of my troops get malaria. I checked daily to see who took their meds and who didn’t. If they didn’t I gave them the appropriate med on the spot.
Got back to Europe and not one caught malaria, in spite of spending 2 months on the ground.
That being said this mission is going to be a nightmare.
It’s hard to say...unless you are directly exposed to Obola, malaria can be very dangerous. Had a soldier medivac’ed from Mali (or some such hellhole) for what was diagnosed as heat exhaustion, and died from malaria on the trip back to Germany.
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