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Mosquito´s transmit malaria. - Kruger National Park
Mosquito´s transmit malaria.
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Malaria: MALARIA.
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  • By PEE-WEE on January 16, 2004
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  • MOSQUITO. - Kruger National Park
    MOSQUITO.
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    Visit your health care provider 4-6 weeks before foreign travel for any necessary vaccinations and a prescription for an antimalarial drug. Take your antimalarial drug exactly on schedule without missing doses. Prevent mosquito and other insect bites. Use DEET insect repellent on exposed skin and flying insect spray in the room where you sleep. Wear long pants and long-sleeved shirts, especially from dusk to dawn. This is the time when mosquitoes that spread malaria bite. Sleep under a mosquito bednet that has been dipped in permethrin insecticide if you are not living in screened or air-conditioned housing.

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    Malaria: Malaria Warning!
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  • Updated By Jenniflower on April 18, 2006
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  • Always take your pills before embarking - Kruger National Park
    Always take your pills before
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    Malaria tablets are essential when travelling in this area. Please consult your doctor or chemist a few weeks prior to your trip, so that you can start taking them in the required dosage. A doctor is mostly available in the KNP in case of an emergency. Your guide is also trained in first aid. KNP shops stock many off the shelf medicines and other essentials too. Even though they are likely to have these in the shop, I would bring headache tablets, Rennies etc along with me too just in case they don?t have what you need. Being asthmatic, I have to be extra careful re what medication I use, even an over-the-counter cough syrup can have dangerous side effects. So I err on the side of caution.

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    Malaria: MALARIA PREVENTION
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  • Updated By LysDor on April 15, 2004
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  • The most important and most effective way of preventing malaria is firstly to prevent mosquito bites. The following preventative measures can be taken: Remain indoors from dusk to dawn if possible as malaria mosquitoes usually feed in the early evenings and mornings -- not quite handy when all safaris at those times! Anyway, cover your arms and legs towards evenings with light coloured clothing to cover exposed skin areas and especially the ankles. Wear long sleeved shirts, long trousers, socks and closed shoes. * Apply insect repellents to exposed skin areas every 4-6 hours. * Burn insecticide coils or electrically heated insecticide tablets in the bedroom at night. * Spray knock-down insecticide for flying insects inside the bedroom in the early evening with windows/doors closed if there are no window screens. * Screened mosquito proof windows and doors and mosquito nets guard against mosquito bites. * Clothes and nets impregnated with Pyrethroid could be used. Another way of preventing malaria is to take additional preventative drugs when visiting an endemic malaria area, especially in the warm and rainy months from October to May. The preventative medication of choice for visitors to the Kruger National Park and surrounding areas is a combination of CHLOROQUIN and PALUDRINE. Chloroquin is taken on a weekly basis and Paludrine daily. The first dose of Chloroquine should be taken a week before entering a malaria area to see if there are no serious side effects. Paludrine can be taken 2 days before entering the malaria area. It is important to continue to take the medication during your stay AND FOR FOUR WEEKS after leaving the malaria area. It is advisable to take the medication at night with food to reduce side effects like nausea. If the Chloroquine/Paludrine combination cannot be used, DOXYCYCLINE on a once daily basis can be taken after meals as a preventative drug. ------------------------------------------------------ The rest of the story -with photos- is in my travelogue

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    Malaria: YOU WILL DIE !
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  • Updated By DAO on March 22, 2007
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  • Malaria - Kruger National Park
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    Do I have your attention? Good. Most of South Africa is Malaria free. Kruger National Park does have Malaria and the mosquitoes to infect you with it. My doctor once told me that 1 million Europeans a year get Malaria! And it can be very fatal after just one mosquito bite. Please do not take chances. You need to start your course of medication 2 weeks before you travel. I highly recommend you use an insect repellent with 100% DEET. It is best not to get bitten at all. So have a safe and healthy holiday. MALARIA can incubate in your body for years. Do you really want to take the chance? I would suggest you buy repellent with 100% DEET. DEET A FEW OTHER WEBSITES: GENERAL INOCULATIONS NEEDED PERSONAL PROFILE YOU CAN BUILD

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    Malaria: THE KRUGER PARK IS IN THE MALARIA AREA
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  • By Braveheart.southafrr on August 30, 2003
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  • BLOOD SUCKING - Kruger National Park
    BLOOD SUCKING
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    THE KRUGER PARK IS IN THE MALARIA INFECTED AREA ONE MUST TAKE THE NECESSARY PRECATIONS .....................

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    Malaria: Keep healthy
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  • By Bubs on July 27, 2003
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  • Recommendations for health - Ensure that you are given the anti-malarial medication specifically for the Kruger area. Wear long sleeved shirts and trousers after dusk as this is when the mozzies will bite! Get vaccinated!! Take a medication pack with sterile needles, IV set and suture kit Take something to stop diarrhoea, a rehydrant, some broad spec. antibiotics, and if you are on any medication DON'T forget to take that Sun cream Warm clothes for cold nights

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    Malaria: Malaria!
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  • By MikeAtSea on October 14, 2004
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  • Malaria - Kruger National Park
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    I have had it twice and it is not fun...! If you are traveling in this region take precautions towards Malaria. If you do not take medication in prevention and you have the following symptoms after your return go straight to your doctor and tell him you were in a Malaria region: Flue like symptoms, combined with headache, backache and fever. Remember malaria kills almost a Million people each year and the longer you wait the more the parasite will multiply in your blood – the result is fatal!

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    Malaria: Malaria
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  • By phil_uk_net on October 2, 2002
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  • Malaria warnings - Kruger National Park
    Malaria warnings
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    Malaria is a problem in this part of South Africa and is a nasty disease. Take tablets and, most of all, do whatever you can to avoid being bitten in the first place.

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    Malaria: Malaria !
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  • By tompt on October 2, 2002
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  • Mosquito´s transmit malaria. - Kruger National Park
    Mosquito´s transmit malaria.
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    The Krugerpark is in a malaria zone. Do consult your doctor before going. Malaria can be deadly ,so use profylaxe.

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    Malaria: Malaria...bring your medicine!
  • By RblWthACoz on November 29, 2005
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  • As in most cases of travel to Africa, malaria is something you have to prepare for. Especially in the bush. Talk to you doctor and get your pills.

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  • Website: http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travel/#protectyourself

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