My email friend went to Nigeria for business. Now has malaria and typhoid fever. Can't go home to UK till better. What can he expect? Malaria can be relapsing, even with chloroquinolones as therapy. That is because certain types of malaria are resistant. Typhoid fever is also debilitating, given that your friend has both of these, I would expect him to be very sick for about two weeks, and then less than perfect for a month or so until all the malarial parasites are out of his system.
If he goes traveling to a tropical country, he needs to take along a mosquito netting, DEET-based mosquito repellent, a pyrethrine to treat the netting and his clothes, and preferably get vaccinated for typhus, hepatitis, and the like. Just because he had malaria and typhoid once does not mean that he cannot get it a second time, there is no immunity. |
