I've always told visitors that that don't need to take medicine to prevent malaria while in Thailand. I've never met someone who even knows someone who's actually had malaria here. Sure, for those going close to the Burmese border, maybe there's a bit of a risk, but not in the lowland parts if the country.
Well all that may have changed. The daughter of one of the Christians here is in hospital with extremely high peaky fevers, interspersed with lower temperatures. The doctor thinks it might be malaria but is not sure yet. They're doing the usual blood tests to make sure.
How is this possible? It turns out that this lady has been worker in a rubber plantation in Krabi alongside lots of Burmese workers. Some of then are new to the country. It is quite possible that someone brought malaria with him/her and passed it on to this woman.
We'll have to see what the final blood test results turn out to be. In the meantime, I think I might go and put on some mosquito repellent! :)
Well all that may have changed. The daughter of one of the Christians here is in hospital with extremely high peaky fevers, interspersed with lower temperatures. The doctor thinks it might be malaria but is not sure yet. They're doing the usual blood tests to make sure.
How is this possible? It turns out that this lady has been worker in a rubber plantation in Krabi alongside lots of Burmese workers. Some of then are new to the country. It is quite possible that someone brought malaria with him/her and passed it on to this woman.
We'll have to see what the final blood test results turn out to be. In the meantime, I think I might go and put on some mosquito repellent! :)
So far the results have come back positive, but the doctor is doing more tests...
ReplyDeleteWell the doctor didn't find any evidence of malaria in the lady's blood. So he's decided that it is "jungle fever"!
ReplyDeleteSo now we all can rest easy. But did I mention that dengue fever is quite common here?...