Hi everyone, I studied at St Mary's Mount Abu -- 1947 to 1951 -- we used mosquito nets (without chemicals) from begining of June to around mid-September -- Though one was almost guaranteed to get malaria in Mount Abu, I did not contract malaria in all those years,
But in Bombay in 1992 I got a real bad dose of malaria -- and a relapse in 1993 -- fortunately the vivax type and not the falsipuram type. We do not use mosquito nets in this up-market Cumballa Hill area of Mumbai. I think this is adequate testimony of the effectiveness of mosquito nets in the prevention of malaria. Plus the additional factor that you are not forced to apply various types of insect repellants or take un-necessary medicines, which kill the malaria parasites inside you and we do not know how much damage these same medicines do to our systems -- My Dad during his days at the Burma front was required to take some anti-malaria medicine, originally quinine but later an ICI drug which made all these guys acquire a yellow colour -- maybe an un-intentional camouflage when fighting the Japs!!! Cheers Aloysius ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mario Goveia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 7:37 PM Subject: Re: [Goanet]Malaria, mosquitoes... and bed-nets | "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > In this context, I would like to hear from others | > who have experience with using bed-nets. We've | > heard via Goanet that expats in Africa would | > often resort to bed-nets. Anti-malaria campaigns | > globally talk not just of bed-nets, but ones soaked | > in chemicals, that keep the mossies away. | > | Mario responds: | Fred, I grew up in Jabalpur and we routinely used what | we called "mosquito nets" on our beds, draped from | four vertical wooden bed posts which were connected by | horizontal wooden rods. The nets were tucked under | the mattress by the sleeper from the inside. They | worked great. |
