Mike Patterson <mpatters at orednet.org> said;

"Speaking as someone who nearly died of malaria, I feel obliged to state
firmly that this is not a diseases to get all herbal about."

and then Robert Taylor <taylorrt at foxinternet.net> responded with;

" ... Malaria is no joke. It's serious. I think that I get
good travel medicine advice -- perhaps sometimes a little overcautious
-- but good."

indeed, you are both correct. malaria is still the number one
killer of human beings on this planet. we are very blessed in
America, because malaria is not (currently) a problem in our
medically advanced country.

Deborah Wisti-Peterson email:nyneve at u.washington.edu
Department of Zoology, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash, USA
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