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I’d like to add some more from what I saw first hand with both the people I traveled with and the locals. At the time aids was massive anyone in the later stages of this disease who also contracted malaria was likely to have a poor out come.
My passengers (pax) and crew were in the most part young 18 to 30. Up for a good time. So a lot of drink. Some of the campsites were magic but the mozzie could be really bad. Jinja the source of the Nile where we stopped to and from the gorillas was a known bad spot. It was also early in the trip so some people could be quite lax. The stop offs in Dar Zanzibar and down Malawi were also bad spots.
We did have tests on the truck but they would in the most part read positive as the pax took propylactics. The crews did not. We would usually take them if we had spent a long time out of the zones. But if you ran back to back Kenya Tanzania trips then you needed to stop as we would run low. Supply was an issue as well as the side effects. I could not use doxi as the sun would just burn holes in me. Even with sunscreen. Lariam in the other hand you also had to be very careful with. Design as an antidepressant which made you even more depressed. Side effect it was good at keeping malaria at bay.
The good news was that we new where the good clinics where. The one in Dar mention in my above post was fantastic also the one in Vic Falls was amazing. Saved a pax’s life who came down with anaphylactic shock after eating mopani worms. Now how many people know there allergic to caterpillars?
There where some excellent doctors who really new there stuff for all the little nastiest from the intestinal worms jigars etc tropical ulcers etc. The nurses in Dar that saved my curriers life where something else. They gave her a drug which I had to administer ever two days I think. A shot in the ass of Artemisinin (following copied of the net) “discovered by exploring the medicinal properties of a herbal remedy from the 4th century. It can cure most forms of malaria with very few side effects and has saved millions of lives all over the world”
Your best bet to avoid the dreaded M is not getting bitten. Sundown long sleeves long trousers and socks and shoes. (Try that on in Dar before the rains!!) Apply repellent to exposed skin. This way when you stumble off to bed you’re not sleeping covered in insect repellent. Deet will melt plastic so a guess what it dose to skin. Ohoo on that topic DONT TOUCH YOUR PRIVATE PARTS
our those of your new found love
it will speed the process up
Also fly spray. Spray your tent and net.
Look at taking vitamin B1 before you go.
Hope this helps.
Posted this before. But here you go again for your entertainment. No phones no internet.
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My passengers (pax) and crew were in the most part young 18 to 30. Up for a good time. So a lot of drink. Some of the campsites were magic but the mozzie could be really bad. Jinja the source of the Nile where we stopped to and from the gorillas was a known bad spot. It was also early in the trip so some people could be quite lax. The stop offs in Dar Zanzibar and down Malawi were also bad spots.
We did have tests on the truck but they would in the most part read positive as the pax took propylactics. The crews did not. We would usually take them if we had spent a long time out of the zones. But if you ran back to back Kenya Tanzania trips then you needed to stop as we would run low. Supply was an issue as well as the side effects. I could not use doxi as the sun would just burn holes in me. Even with sunscreen. Lariam in the other hand you also had to be very careful with. Design as an antidepressant which made you even more depressed. Side effect it was good at keeping malaria at bay.
The good news was that we new where the good clinics where. The one in Dar mention in my above post was fantastic also the one in Vic Falls was amazing. Saved a pax’s life who came down with anaphylactic shock after eating mopani worms. Now how many people know there allergic to caterpillars?
There where some excellent doctors who really new there stuff for all the little nastiest from the intestinal worms jigars etc tropical ulcers etc. The nurses in Dar that saved my curriers life where something else. They gave her a drug which I had to administer ever two days I think. A shot in the ass of Artemisinin (following copied of the net) “discovered by exploring the medicinal properties of a herbal remedy from the 4th century. It can cure most forms of malaria with very few side effects and has saved millions of lives all over the world”
Your best bet to avoid the dreaded M is not getting bitten. Sundown long sleeves long trousers and socks and shoes. (Try that on in Dar before the rains!!) Apply repellent to exposed skin. This way when you stumble off to bed you’re not sleeping covered in insect repellent. Deet will melt plastic so a guess what it dose to skin. Ohoo on that topic DONT TOUCH YOUR PRIVATE PARTS
our those of your new found love it will speed the process upAlso fly spray. Spray your tent and net.
Look at taking vitamin B1 before you go.
Hope this helps.
Posted this before. But here you go again for your entertainment. No phones no internet.
The company I worked for.
1300 tyres. If you did get it stuck you needed a good crew to get you out. Fairly sure my left leg was bigger than my right from all the double clutches 
(got the worming tablets in clinic in Lilongwe with the instructions “Have a jolly good feed, take these three and don’t look down……I looked down“. Put me of pasta for the rest of my life
) a wicked hatred of mozzies. Can’t sleep in a room if I hear one have to hunt it down. Same hatred for monkeys, although they don’t seem to get into my room so often
