Sundowner...

**Mike_Oettle** · 4th March 11, 05:12 AM

Irish Jack wrote: “I still came back with malaria.”

And that, unfortunately, is the problem. Quinine (whether taken with gin or in tablet form as we did in Owambo) is not a guarantee against catching malaria.
I wonder when the next anti-malaria breakthrough will be.
Regards,
Mike

**Jock Scot** · 4th March 11, 05:17 AM

Originally Posted by Mike_Oettle

Irish Jack wrote: “I still came back with malaria.”

And that, unfortunately, is the problem. Quinine (whether taken with gin or in tablet form as we did in Owambo) is not a guarantee against catching malaria.
I wonder when the next anti-malaria breakthrough will be.
Regards,
Mike

Bring back DDT, I say.

**macwilkin** · 4th March 11, 05:19 AM

Originally Posted by Mike_Oettle

Irish Jack wrote: “I still came back with malaria.”

And that, unfortunately, is the problem. Quinine (whether taken with gin or in tablet form as we did in Owambo) is not a guarantee against catching malaria.
I wonder when the next anti-malaria breakthrough will be.
Regards,
Mike

Trivia: Quinine was developed by a Missouri resident, Dr. John S. Sappington:

http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissou...ton/index.html

T.

**Mike_Oettle** · 4th March 11, 05:39 AM

DDT kills mosquitoes . . . and a heck of a lot of other stuff in the eco-system.

**Jock Scot** · 4th March 11, 05:45 AM

Originally Posted by Mike_Oettle

DDT kills mosquitoes . . . and a heck of a lot of other stuff in the eco-system.

Yes I know, but there are times when I want all mosquitoes to die a long, lingering and extremely painful death and frankly at those particular times I don't care about much else!

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 4th March 11, 06:27 AM

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

**Jock Scot** · 4th March 11, 06:39 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

**Lallans** · 4th March 11, 08:42 AM

Originally Posted by MacMillan of Rathdown

DDT... Drop Dead Twice?

Or Drop Dead Tweetiebird?

**BoldHighlander** · 7th March 11, 02:10 AM

Don'tchya just love how these threads take a life of their own?

(...and I'm just as guilty! :mrgreen

**Lallans** · 7th March 11, 08:27 AM

On the one hand, DDT does a lot of second hand damage in the environment but I do see the original point that was being made about it, which I assume was a reference to the fact that people are dying of malaria that could be prevented by the use of DDT. DDT however is not a long term solution because, if we can all remember, insects in North America were virtually immune to it by the time it was banned.

And to continue the off topicness going on, last week there were news items that the breakdown byproduct of DDT, DDA, which allegedly acts as a fake hormone in the human body, is becoming suspect in the western obesity epidemic. And there they were blaming McDonalds! (I hasten to add that I'm jokingly referring to the notorious chain of fast food restaurants).