Malaria ... Who Would Expect This ?

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A friend of mine, a retired Marine, spent time in Africa and the Middle East. He's been home for a while, marched with us in the 4th of July parade, and now has dropped dead of Malaria. Malaria would be the last thing in the world on my mind til now.

This is a great person.

The price we pay for world peace is never ending.

Please Pray for this Marine and his family.





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While in England awaiting the invasion my father suffered a malarial attack. Reporting to sick call he told them what was going on. The docs checked his service record and it showed he had never been stationed where malaria was common so disbelieved his self diagnosis.

After a while he finally got someone to listen to him. He had contracted malaria as a teen while living in Panama. His dad was navy.

Years later, I was in my early teens he had another attack. I learned that through out the years he had outbreaks.
 
Sorry to hear about your friend
I worked in Nigeria and Jakarta, Indonesia, and both are known for Malaria. I took my malaria pills and drank plenty of Gin and Tonic. The Brits say the Quinine in the tonic water keeps the malaria sceeters away. Who was I to doubt them. :)
 
When I worked at a children’s ER, we would see occasional cases, usually from children who had traveled or were immigrants. Rarely did we see relapse cases.
 
Sorry to hear about your friend. This is really scary to me as I'm highly allergic to Qunine. I think that's still the only real treatment for Malaria.
 
I send a prayer for your friend and those who loved him. My father was from Sicily and had malaria and lost a sibling to it. I have friends from Africa that had malaria also. It is my understanding that it was once common in the southern states.
 
On June 26, 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory with news that the first locally acquired malaria cases in a generation had been reported in Texas and Florida. Malaria, a disease endemic to the United States from before the country's founding until the early 1950s, had returned.
 
Malaria is nothing to ignore. It was somewhat common when I was in Vietnam. The malaria pills we were given only protected you from the most benign form of the disease, and for most people, gave you a bad case of diarrhea. Netting at night was the best defense. I recall hearing soldiers say that they wished they would get malaria so that it would be their ticket to go home. I witnessed a 20 year old dying of falciparum malaria at the 85th Evac Hospital in Phu Bai and knew that it was not a disease to be careless about. Sorry for the loss of your friend.
 
Yeah, they handed out those anti-malarial pills whle I was stationed in Korea and I finally quit taking them cause I was tired of the di-rearea they gave you.
Funny thing is the trash can NEVER got malaria or had had diarrhea because I tossed that pill in it ever time when no one was looking !!
 
Sad to hear.

Prior to attending JEST in the Philippines we were given anti malaria tablets to take. I forget how many or how often. A few of us had terrible side effects from them. To this day I believe it was the sickest I've ever been. I won't go into full details but will say I ended up at one point on the deck in the fetal position expelling substance from above and below at the same time. I can only imagine actually contracting the actual disease.
 
ronbou174 said:
On June 26, 2023, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a health advisory with news that the first locally acquired malaria cases in a generation had been reported in Texas and Florida. Malaria, a disease endemic to the United States from before the country's founding until the early 1950s, had returned.
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That’s because many if not all communities no longer use the fog trucks. And the most effective mosquito poisons have been banned. Add to that the lack of awareness on people’s part to make sure even small areas of stagnant water are drained and this is what happens.

Several years ago a customer had a large high pressure water jet cutting setup. We’re talking several hundreds of gallons of water in the tank. Because of the classified nature of the work ordinary mortals like myself weren’t allowed access.

That changed when they started to notice things “swimming” in the tank. As an example of the general loss ok knowledge, no one at the facility knew they were mosquito larva.

This was during an outbreak of Avian flu. Fortunately for them it wasn’t that particular mosquito.
 
My grandmothers neighbor contracted malaria during WWII.
I remember him having flare ups when I was a kid in the 60s and 70s
 
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