dancrane
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Interestingly, garlic doesn't only deter mozzies...![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
So?Interestingly, garlic doesn't only deter mozzies...![]()
Oh, dear! This thread has frightened me! Like many others, I dream of sailing away. I could cope with heavy weather, but not cockroaches. I was a service brat so spent a lot of time abroad, including the tropics. Despite, or because of, this I hate cockroaches and creepy crawlies. I know mossies are more dangerous but I don't find them as repellant.
Is there any hope for me?
Re Malaria:-Just how different are today's Englishmen and women, in terms of biological resistance to malaria, from early sailing explorers?
I'm curious whether anyone knows if we're any stronger (other than through improved health anyway) than Cook's or Bligh's crews.
As an astoundingly poor biology student, I ask in total ignorance. I've heard poor reports of drugs that prepare a UK constitution for tropical attacks, and that eg. African clinics, are much better aware of how to treat European sufferers. But it's difficult to believe that in this day and age, any wisdom about cracking malaria cases would have failed to permeate health services internationally.
On a bit of a tangent...(total, actually) wasn't there a chap who made it across an ocean, drinking only seawater? As I understood it, he wasn't in any imminent danger, but just sought to prove it could be done, and managed it. I may have dreamed it...
Doubtful, the downsides of the G6PD genes are too great.Excellent pun! I've private reasons, far beyond the probable lifespan of my laptop's keyboard, for saying so.
Fascinating stuff, at least as far as I'm able to follow it. Tragic, if people routinely die from first-world ignorance about what would be very insignificant, in tropical zones.
Isn't it likely (or even possible) that resistance to malaria, carried genetically, might in the not so dim-and-distant, be made an adoptable solution or injection?