Man, it's been months since I heard........................
Well Joe, I've inserted a few info-bits over the last few weeks about my own experience with tropical malaria and the mid-east desert sand fly fever.
Since I was eighteen years old to current time I have spent my entire life in the tropics (aka JJ) and the deserts around the world.
I have been infected with malaria for many years and most certainly remember how I dealt with it. In the good old days upon arrival at some steaming wet tropical shit-hole the all knowing el jefes forced us to partake in the big flat white tabs called chloroquine (CG) in order to PROTECT you, not CURE you from the malaria blood parasite that I still suspect is not CURABLE since the little beggars live inside your blood cells and in order to kill the little beggars in your blood cells the blood cells would have to be killed as well. Kill the host in order to kill the parasite?? Sounds like today's GOV.COM plans don't it?
So do a little research so I don't drag this on for ten pages. The malaria event or episode occurs when the infected blood cells packed with the new crop of thousands of baby parasites all burst at once thru your entire body. The new crop of little beggars now are on their own to seek out a new blood cell, penetrate it and start a new brood. When the cell bursts it is also full of the leftover crap from the feeding of the previous little beggars. That crap from thousands upon thousands of bursting blood cells are pure poison the the human body and the effect on the body is what is known as a malarial episode. Begins small but as the parasite numbers take over the system each episode is grander than the last to the point that the host might just die from it.
Many moons ago the Brits in Old British India found that the bark of the Quinona Tree had something in it that could control those episodes, thus forth the Gin and Tonic that is still popular. Again, do a little research so I don't drag this on for another ten pages.
So anyway, CG controls the poison from the bursting blood cells that cause fever, chills, sweating, weakness headache and lower back pain, all the symptoms of the filthy bio-weapon the ass hole chinks have attacked us with.
In later years whilst in the desert shit-holes of Iran, Iraq and various South American god-awful dumps the CG was replaced with a modernized control known as Primaquine (PQ). I've taken it for years to control the same effects that Sand Fly Fever has an the human body. PQ is also available at many Mexican farmacias, even RP.
So sweet dreams amigo. Death is certainly at your door tonight..............................
JJ