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Sounds awesome. Malaria seems like it has the capacity to really ruin someone's life.

• bencollier49 11y ago
  Do you reckon? http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/ http://www.who.int/gho/malaria/epidemic/deaths/en/
• zamalek 11y ago
  > Malaria seems like it has the capacity to really ruin someone's life. I contracted a unknown variant of malaria when I was a kid. It really wasn't a pleasant experience. There's sickness; then on a completely different level there's malaria. It won't ruin your life - if you survive you'll be left as healthy as you were before. However, that's IF you survive.
  • berekuk 11y ago
    It can leave you slightly more stupid, though: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0124005 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...., http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/366 http://www.malariajournal.com/content/9/1/366, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629612000896 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167629612...
    • zamalek 11y ago
      > It can leave you slightly more stupid, though That explains a lot ;)
  • JupiterMoon 11y ago
    > as healthy as you were before. Except that anytime you are otherwise sick or generally run down in the future it could return and make you very ill again (or kill you). I hope that this does not happen to you. Good luck!
    • noselasd 11y ago
      While it's widely believed that once contracted you can't get rid of malaria, you actually can(though not in all cases, and it might be hard to prove you are malaria free). http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html#treatment http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html#treatment
      • JupiterMoon 11y ago
        Good knowledge! I wouldn't bet my life on it though.