In message 7KSqd.246957$9b.16867@edtnps84, Scott Elliot
writes
Advice is often worth what you pay for it. If you take free advice from the
internet for something as vital as a medicine that may save your life you
are not putting much value on your life.

See a qualified travel physician who is familiar with recommendations for
the area you are visiting and follow his/her advice. There are specific
medicines that are recommended and not recommended for different areas so
the prophylactic recommended will vary depending on strain of malaria in the
area and evolved resistance to different medicines. Qualified practitioners
have access to this data.

My wife watched a healthy young man die of cerebral malaria. It is not
worth fooling around with.

Scott


Scott,
I agree with what you say about a doctor who is qualified in travel
medicine. In Britain our first port of call is our GP (general
practitioner). He has his current travel information from the School of
Tropical Medicine plus a direct line to check on any new information
to the country his patient is travelling to. We also have travel clinics
in large cities. Before we went to both Nigeria and Kenya to live for
several years, we saw the GP and I wrote to a Professor of Malaria at
the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine to ask questions. In the reply
he confirmed that the GP`s recommendation for the country we were going
to was correct but he stressed that drugs alone were not enough, people
should also use repellents, cover up in the evenings and use a mosquito
net. The doctors also know which inoculations are required for the
country of travel
Pat
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Pat Anderson