Monday, October 28, 2024

Dengue and Malaria? We haz that

 Malaria in Arkansas and Dengue in Calfornia.

short discussion on my medical blog.

the CDC is doing investigation of contacts  while doing spraying to kill mosquitoes: ironically, although both these diseases are spread via mosquitoes, the mosquitoes are different. Luckily, the way to kill mosquitoes is the same: Get rid of standing water and spray high risk areas.

there is a dengue vaccine but not a good one, and the malaria detected is the lower grade Ovale, which can hide in asymptomatic patients but doesn't kill as often as the more virulent Falciparum version which is becoming resistant to medicine.

With all the criticism of the public health service, you might want to remember that malaria was once common in the Southern USA, 

a different mosquito spreads Dengue, and although Dengue was not a problem, the same mosquito spread Yellow fever, which was a major problem in the USA.

History lesson here:


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