Category Archives: Overheard

When I asked my (English) diving instructor in Mozambique whether he recommends taking the prophlaxic, he told me he gets malaria about 3 times a year and when he does he goes to the doctor, takes the medicine and a few days later he’s OK again.

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Have yet to meet anybody who takes Malaria remotely seriously: natives, foreign workers, people who have never had it, people who have had it…they all treat it like a minor inconvenience. It is fascinating how many people have implied I’m a hypochondriac because i wanted a net..everyone says the same thing “We don’t have malaria here…but if you do get it just take the pills!”

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“I was told by a Danish medical worker who was on a break from Congo that a lot of the time parents resell medication they are given for their kids and hence the kids die…quite common she said.”

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