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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 |
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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 |
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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 -- Pat Anderson |
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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 -- Pat Anderson |
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Ask you doctor whether there's any reason not to take Malarone.
Then get one pack of Malarone and read the instructions for prophylactic use. It will probably say that you should begin to take it one or two weeks in advance. (I forgot which.) Its two days before you enter the malarial region and continue a week (I think) after you come out (one of the reasons I preferred it - you dont have to take it so long for a short trip) For the exact time it is anyway safer to read the instructions than to ask here. There may be a new variant or the instructions may have been changed, so better read them. They are clear and unambiguous. but I agree with the above advice too! -- Rita Daggett |
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Ask you doctor whether there's any reason not to take Malarone.
Then get one pack of Malarone and read the instructions for prophylactic use. It will probably say that you should begin to take it one or two weeks in advance. (I forgot which.) Its two days before you enter the malarial region and continue a week (I think) after you come out (one of the reasons I preferred it - you dont have to take it so long for a short trip) For the exact time it is anyway safer to read the instructions than to ask here. There may be a new variant or the instructions may have been changed, so better read them. They are clear and unambiguous. but I agree with the above advice too! -- Rita Daggett |
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Question about black Africans, and indigenous peoplesof Papu/New Guinea and also some Australian aborigines. These people carry the sickle cell anemia gene. Does carrying it immunize someone against malaria completely, or just makes the tolerate it effects better than for those who don't carry the gene? |
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Question about black Africans, and indigenous peoplesof Papu/New Guinea and also some Australian aborigines. These people carry the sickle cell anemia gene. Does carrying it immunize someone against malaria completely, or just makes the tolerate it effects better than for those who don't carry the gene? |
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:32:28 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote: Question about black Africans, and indigenous peoplesof Papu/New Guinea and also some Australian aborigines. These people carry the sickle cell anemia gene. Does carrying it immunize someone against malaria completely, or just makes the tolerate it effects better than for those who don't carry the gene? The latter. Many indigenous people acquire (or perhaps inherit, I don't know) partial immunity, with or without that gene. By far not all indigenous people have the sickle-cell anemia gene. Only some have it. It obviously carries its own disadvantage, so it's an evolutionary tradeoff. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:32:28 GMT, Not the Karl Orff
wrote: Question about black Africans, and indigenous peoplesof Papu/New Guinea and also some Australian aborigines. These people carry the sickle cell anemia gene. Does carrying it immunize someone against malaria completely, or just makes the tolerate it effects better than for those who don't carry the gene? The latter. Many indigenous people acquire (or perhaps inherit, I don't know) partial immunity, with or without that gene. By far not all indigenous people have the sickle-cell anemia gene. Only some have it. It obviously carries its own disadvantage, so it's an evolutionary tradeoff. Hans-Georg -- No mail, please. |
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