I will see if I can pick up a copy of the book and read it.
John. _________________ Englishman living and working in Ukraine for English Russian Language TV spent 8 years living in Post Elizabeth, South Africa and loved it!
I've just read Ferdydurke (eng. title: "30 door key" which is fonetic translation of polish title which makes no sense at all :D ) by polish author Witold Gombrowicz.. A novel treats of existentional problems of people in absurdal/grotesque way.. I recommend ;)
Hmmm. Hitchhiking alone in Africa. That would take more balls than I would have!
Is there a vaccine for malaria, or do you just take your chances and take your quinine?
Actually there is. The safe thing is to get the necessary injections before you go to an area where you might get malaria. For us it's a matter of routine before we go up north. You know the drill, you pack your bags, cancel the newspaper, get your malaria injection... There are tablets as well. But even if you didn't take precautions, it can still be treated in any proper hospital afterwards. _________________ Toe ek jonk was, het ek al die antwoorde geken. Nou verstaan ek nie eens die vrae nie.
Malaria actually existed in the US at one time -- i remember reading about it in the Little House on the Prairie books, where Laura recalls her father being stricken with what they at that time called "fever and ague" and blamed on "bad night air". I have never heard of anyone having malaria in my lifetime here, so i looked it up just now -- and apparently it was eradicated about the time my mother was born, by aggressively spraying for mosquitoes. But you can see on the maps that it started out in the South and slowly spread up the middle of the country into the Midwest, where Little House takes place in the late 1800's. I would imagine it was imported from Africa as part of the slave trade. I was also surprised to learn that the CDC (the Centers for Disease Control) were originally founded to control malaria, and then took on a wider role as time went by!
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