Posted on 11/19/2021 9:48:06 AM PST by artichokegrower
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — At a busy market in a poor township outside Harare this week, Nyasha Ndou kept his mask in his pocket, as hundreds of other people, mostly unmasked, jostled to buy and sell fruit and vegetables displayed on wooden tables and plastic sheets. As in much of Zimbabwe, here the coronavirus is quickly being relegated to the past, as political rallies, concerts and home gatherings have returned.
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Hydroxychloroquine can be used for prevention of malaria, but usually it’s chloroquine.
Ivermectin is used to treat certain worm infections, but for short courses only. As far as I know (which is pretty far) it’s not a preventative.
Its all those flys swarming their heads that kill off the Covid bugs.
For Pete’s sake: it’s frickin’ hot there. They don’t have a cold and flu season and they don’t have any AC to speak of.
This ain’t rocket science.
Ok, it was quite a while ago I saw the map of African countries with very low Covid deaths. And they were all north of Namibia and Botswana and south of the Sahara. So it must be they take it to prevent parasites.
Its all those flys swarming their heads that kill off the Covid bugs.
Ebola laughs at COVID.
Its all those flys swarming their heads that kill off the Covid bugs.
Fake scientists don’t understand 🤪
LOL...you beat me to it!
Having worked in the bush of eastern Africa for a couple of years and traveled in western Africa, that was my thought.
The entire continent is reaffirming Darwin's theory.
Chloroquine and HCQ are two different drugs and used in different strains of malaria. If Ivermectin is used for round worms still you get the same results where covid is concerned.
HCQ is hydroxychloroquine. It is a form with fewer side effects than straight chloroquine.
It is even less effective than chloroquine against chloroquine-resistant malaria:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12837731/
Therefore, it would hardly be the drug of choice in areas of chloroquine resistance, which is pretty couch all of sub-Saharan Africa. Chloroquine (and, yes, HCQ) are rarely used in Africa any longer. Now a combination of artemisinin plus doxycycline or Halfan or quinine or whatever is appropriate to the patient and area.
I have had resistant P. Falciparum myself. The drugs used to treat it are not fun.
Yep, they all have national programs distributing this drug regularly to their populations as I understand it.
It does appear there may be something to ivermectin theory. African countries participating in the WHO program to prevent river blindness have a 28% lower Covid fatality rate (but only 8% lower infection rate) than those that did not, according to statistical studies (not peer reviewed):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33795896/
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.03.26.21254377v1
” “Africa doesn’t have the vaccines and the resources to fight COVID-19 that they have in Europe and the U.S., but somehow they seem to be doing better,” “
“Fewer than 6% of people in Africa are vaccinated. “
“For months, the WHO has described Africa as “one of the least affected regions in the world” in its weekly pandemic reports.”
“...Nigerian authorities began a campaign to significantly expand the West African nation’s coronavirus immunization. Officials are aiming to inoculate half the population before February, a target they think will help them achieve herd immunity.”
If successful, you will see a VAST INCREASE in COVID.
“The impact of the coronavirus has also been relatively muted beyond Africa in poor countries like Afghanistan, where experts predicted outbreaks amid ongoing conflict would prove disastrous.”
EVERYWHERE the vaxxines have NOT been prevalent, the disease hasn’t been either?
Hmmm, what to make of this?
The africans all take hydroxychloriquine for malaria... that is the elephant in the room.
No, they do not, althpugh many here seem to believe they do. See my post #71.
Thanks I got ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine confused...again Trump was right.
Are all the quinine related drugs zinc ionophores? I know quinine itself is a zinc ionophore. Not sure about Halfan (Halofantrine.)
For years they've used Doxycycline Hyclate to prevent malaria.
Doxycycline is a close relative to HCQ. Because of this, many Africans have an already built in immunity to Covid.
I would imagine Halfan is, as it is related to quinine. While it can still be found in African markets, it is no longer recommended, as there is now considerable cross-resistance to halofantrine and mefloquine, and Halfan has quite nasty side effects (including cardiotoxicity). I would never recommend taking it. Lariam is even nastier (neurotoxicity).
When I had resistant P. falciparum, before Halfan resistance back in the early 1990s, I had to take “toxic doses of quinine” as the doc put it. I went completely deaf from it for two weeks, but thankful my hearing gradually returned. Not everyone’s does. At that time, Halfan was reserved for the direst cases, for fear if used too often resistance would develop. Resistance developed anyway.
I was advised by State to take Larium as prophylaxis, but decided against it after researching it. Once in-country, I came across some Americans who took the Larium and were very sorry. By 2000, the Europeans had realized how dangerous Larium can be. Halfan is not pretty, either.
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