> The chance of getting the disease is also low, This is quite wrong. About 15 years ago I went on a trip up the Rio Negro in Brazil. My wife and daughters h

> The chance of getting the disease is also low, This is quite wrong. About 15 years ago I went on a trip up the Rio Negro in Brazil. My wife and daughters had taken the standard preventative medicines, but they all came down with a drug resistant form. I escaped because I took a low dosage antibiotic. Their treatment was complicated because the disease didnt manifest itself for 2-3 months, not the normal < 30 days. Also malaria runs in a cycle of 2 weeks or so. It could be detected (then?) only when they were too sick to go to the hospital. When they felt well enough to go to the hospital it had retreated to the liver and wasnt detectable. > Its incurable Not true at all, but the treatment (at the time) required a two drug phased treatment. First the active disease needed to be cleared from the system. Then the reservoir in the liver needed to be killed. They had a drug resistant strain which required strain specific treatment. Treatment in Brazil was complicated because the drugs were OTC and most people treated themselves without a doctor's supervision, leading to the drug resistant strains.