I had malaria when I was in Liberia: I was on chloroquin but the local Falciparum was resistant to it, so when I developed fever and pain, they put me on alternative treatment, a sulfa drug.
In Zimbabwe, we had few cases because we were at a high altitude, but those from lower altitudes, or who visited lower altitudes, could have it, and I know two of our sisters (one European, one Africa) who caught cerebral malaria but managed to survive.
so we routinely tested for it. Alas the blood test might not pick it up, as he discusses here, so we treated suspected cases just in case.
he is showing the immune test, but back then we had to look at a blood slide for the parasites, but in malaria they are only present intermittantly.
Babies are especially vulnerable to die of malaria, but even adults who don't have immunity from previous infections can die.
The white gov't for example had moved some of our people to a different area so they could sell the land to white farmers, and many of those who were moved developed malaria and died because the new area was in lower altitude.
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