I have got the chance to visit Argentina with a Field Guides tour in October-November this year. We’ll have a 2 days pretrip to the Ibera marshes in Corrientes province, and will afterwards visit the chaco and the Andes area in NW Argentina (Jujuy province). The written informaion I have got from the company, is somewhat ambivalent about the occurrence of malaria in these areas and the necessity of taking precautions. I would therefore much appreciate any help and advice I can get from people who have traveled in this area. Many thanks in advance!
Wim Vader, Tromsø Museum 9037 Tromsø, Norway
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Thanks Carl & G’day All
What I do know is that the one I named works well.
Cheers
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Mike,
There is a bit of a problem with the Artemesia based treatments, in that there have been quite a few dodgy, counterfeits on the market coming out of China. There was an article in OBC’s Forktail a while back on the problem and how to tell the fakes. If anyone would like a copy of the article, I will try and dig it out, and send it.
Cheers,
Carl Clifford
Greetings
In our last two years in PNG a new treatment came out for Malaria. You only take it if you get malaria. We have used it three times on three different people and the symptoms disappeared in 20 minutes in each case. The research on the internet shows there are instances however, where it does not work. One piece of research showed it worked for 80% of cases.
It is available over the counter at chemists in PNG. It is called dihydroartemisinin and is made from the plant Artemisia or sweet wormwood (just wormwood in the Bible). The trade name of the one we got was Cotecxin but in PNG just ask for the Chinese malarial medicine.
We never got malaria ourselves in 8 years in PNG – but that was largely because we never stood around outside in the twi-light periods. Most other staff at PAU got malaria – but they often stood around talking on their way home in the twilight period.
I do not know the availability of artemisinin in other countries but hope this knowledge will help in dealing with this ever-growing problem.
Cheers
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Greetings
In our last two years in PNG a new treatment came out for Malaria. You only take it if you get malaria. We have used it three times on three different people and the symptoms disappeared in 20 minutes in each case. The research on the internet shows there are instances however, where it does not work. One piece of research showed it worked for 80% of cases.
It is available over the counter at chemists in PNG. It is called dihydroartemisinin and is made from the plant Artemisia or sweet wormwood (just wormwood in the Bible). The trade name of the one we got was Cotecxin but in PNG just ask for the Chinese malarial medicine.
We never got malaria ourselves in 8 years in PNG – but that was largely because we never stood around outside in the twi-light periods. Most other staff at PAU got malaria – but they often stood around talking on their way home in the twilight period.
I do not know the availability of artemisinin in other countries but hope this knowledge will help in dealing with this ever-growing problem.
Cheers
Mike =================== Michael Tarburton tarburton.m@optusnet.com.au ===================
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