Comments on: Emails from Singida 6 http://timcorrigan.com/index.php/2007/10/19/emails-from-singida-6/ Tim Corrigan blogs on cycling, trips and programming... Mon, 26 Mar 2012 12:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Tim Corrigan http://timcorrigan.com/index.php/2007/10/19/emails-from-singida-6/comment-page-1/#comment-1036 Tim Corrigan Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:17:15 +0000 http://timcorrigan.com/?p=173#comment-1036 Ah yes - I was told by the Doctor who treated me that none are effective against all strains but that the one's I was on were effective against the worst strains. Anyway we actually stopped using repellant in camp because we didn't see a single mosquito and didn't get any bites. (there was no water anywhere near so perhaps that's why). Anyway there must have been some kind of stealth ninja mosquito because I got it and never even noticed I had a bite! Ah yes – I was told by the Doctor who treated me that none are effective against all strains but that the one’s I was on were effective against the worst strains. Anyway we actually stopped using repellant in camp because we didn’t see a single mosquito and didn’t get any bites. (there was no water anywhere near so perhaps that’s why). Anyway there must have been some kind of stealth ninja mosquito because I got it and never even noticed I had a bite!

]]> By: Michael http://timcorrigan.com/index.php/2007/10/19/emails-from-singida-6/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 Michael Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:50:51 +0000 http://timcorrigan.com/?p=173#comment-1035 The anti-malarials don't actually keep you from getting malaria - they just make it much, much, much less bad if you do. (It's mosquito discipline, and good ole luck, that keep you from getting malaria.) Ask Charles for his malaria story sometime . . . pretty harrowing. Glad you lived! m The anti-malarials don’t actually keep you from getting malaria – they just make it much, much, much less bad if you do. (It’s mosquito discipline, and good ole luck, that keep you from getting malaria.)

Ask Charles for his malaria story sometime . . . pretty harrowing.

Glad you lived!

m

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