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Malaria Treatment FAQ: I am travelling to Manuel Antonio, Islita (Southern Guanacaste coast), Monteverde, and Arenal in December for my honeymoon.
Is it really necessary to take pills for malaria?
Also, I understand I need to take precautions against mosquitoes, but does this mean I should be covered in DEET 24 hours a day?
Thanks, from a nervous [...]
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Malaria Treatment FAQ: Here in our country Uganda there is on going debate whether to use DDT to eliminate mosquitoes and on the other side the enviromentalist are oppossing the spray of DDT.
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Malaria Treatment FAQ: I just read an article out of national geographic magazine from july 2007. Part of the article talks about how Stephen Hoffman and the Sanaria company are developing a vaccine with falciparum infected parasites from adult female mosquitoes, to create a vaccination against malaria. They weaken the parasites with with a [...]
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Malaria Treatment FAQ: This is what happened.
I told my brother that mosquitoes are responsible for more deaths than any other animal. He said that it is not responsible for the deaths, but the malaria that they transmit is. I argued that the mosquito is integral to the transmission of malaria and is therefore responsible to [...]
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