Malaria Articles

Malaria – Precautions, Symptoms and Medication

FAQs About Malaria.

I Don’t Feel So Good…

You have a fever, with chills, sweating, exhaustion, maybe headache and muscular aches and pains…

Or maybe not quite.

Malaria can be a decisively present disease but it is often ambiguous to start with, and your prophylaxis might be hindering its full expression. Some other disease may be adding its symptoms to confuse you and worse, you [...]

So, What About these Drugs?

Alas, there is no drug that is completely safe and effective either for prevention or for treatment, nor is there a vaccine. The optimum regimen is an attempt to balance the risk of side effects against the risk of disease. You must consider where you are going and when, how you will travel, the types [...]

So, You’re Going to Get Bitten

Just one bite, by one infected mosquito is enough, and despite everything mentioned in previous articles, you could be unlucky. It takes about a week to go from the bite to the disease if nothing intervenes. Conversely, you could employ some ineffective scheme that appeared to work, simply because you were lucky. Or even do [...]

How Not to Get Malaria

Don’t get Bitten!!

The most definite method is to keep away from malarial areas.

There are anecdotes about sharing an aeroplane cabin on your entirely non-malarial journey with a passenger who has just come from a malarial area and who has brought some hungry mosquitoes along, so if you believe in that risk, you won’t be comforted.

But [...]

Precautions Against Malaria

This is not a substitute for medical advice, related to your situation by a trained expert. The idea is to give you some idea of the issues and enough background so that during your consultation, you have a better idea of what is involved in the choices available and can ask useful questions while making [...]