MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
You can get paid to catch malaria
Posted on 03/06/2008 1:13:26 AM PST by Stoat
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A wonderful idea. They artificially now carry the disease. USA mosquitoes pick it up and spread it across the nation like lime disease and ticks. We all get it.
This could be a wonderful plan to cause a new epidemic.
Seattle’s a Sanctury City... their citizens already do it for free.
Not specific to dentistry but I thought that you might find this interesting nevertheless :-)
Wonder what casket company CEO is on the board of directors at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute.
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MIKE SIEGEL / THE SEATTLE TIMES
You can get paid to catch malaria
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“USA mosquitoes pick it up and spread it across the nation.”
Exactly my thought, and are these people going to be held indoors for the 9 to 11 days so there is no chance of their being bitten by a mosquito? And if the vaccine does not work will they forever be a focus of disease? How can we stop this madness? Isn’t there some tropical area where there are already malaria problems where they would be willing to be part of this experiment and cash money outlay?
Malaria has always been here. A few soldiers also brought it back from Vietnam. A friend of mine who came back with it has a relapse annually. Some years it is like getting flu for a few days. A couple of years he noticed nothing. Some years he is in bed for a month. It is not fun.
The volunteers won’t “spread” malaria any more than the people who already have it spread malaria. Malaria exists in the US. It is rare but it is here.
I did not say they would “spread” malaria. I said they would be a focus of the disease if they are bitten by the right kind of mosquito. Dengue fever has been moving northward in the past few years, probably the same for malaria mosquitos.
This is one medical experiment Id never volunteer for.
Im very familiar with:
a cold stage (sensation of cold, shivering)
a hot stage (fever, headaches)
and finally a sweating stage (sweats, return to normal temperature, tiredness)
It hit me on a weekend a couple months after I returned and lasted almost 2 days. The doc asked if I had been to Viet Nam and when I replied in the affirmative he just shrugged and said Id have it occasionally for a few years. That was in 1968. I had one or two a year for over 20 years. They scared the daylights out of my wife.
I wonder if the people who are violently opposed to animal testing will be among the first to volunteer?
Across the pond, over in the Nam, when the sun starts going down...or even during daylight in the triple canopy jungle, KAWAAAMO!" Them damned skeeters would eat you alive!
The one's that had the white "fur" on them were the Anopheles... much smaller than their cousins that came out with them. The Anopheles bite wasn't as sharp as their cousins either. Their cousins bite was horrendous! You would swell up big time and ITCH like crazy!
It was the Anopheles that made many of my fellow soldiers sick with malaria. I, daily handed out two pills a day to those in my charge, mefloquine and halofantrine, both made you slightly ill, but were supposed to keep you healthy. It didn't work as well as some thought... In fact if you caught malaria in Viet Nam, it was a court Martial offense if I remember correctly.
Yes, some guys out in the jungle didn't take what I gave them, just to get out of the field of Battle. Can't say I blamed them, but malaria is a life long disease...
When I was a college student and low on $$, I briefly considered volunteering for some medical trials. I went there and they explained what they wanted to do. Long/short of it was that they said they wanted to partially inhibit my immune system. While the effect was supposed to be “temporary”, there was no guarantee that my immune system would be 100% where t was before the experiment. It paid $1200, which was a lot of $$ in 1990. I really needed the $$, but ended up passing ‘cause the potential damage just wasn’t worth it. Never regretted that decision! [Looked around for a Sperm bank gig, but (sadly) I could never land one of those.]
There are NO mosquitoes, fleas, or other biting insects in Seattle, and ALL of these 2000 victims (er, volunteers) are going to stay in place and not go anywhere else in the US or worldwide where there are mosquitoes.
/sarchasm - the gaping canyon between reality and a liberal
I really don’t think you have anything to worry about. The volunteers would be treated immediately and it takes more than one bite (usually!) for malaria to be transmitted. Then, the mosquito must bite the patient at the right time in the malaria cycle, again several bites, and then fly a short distance to another person and bite them repeatedly. There just are not that many anapholes mosquitoes in the US anymore to make this happen.
Further, malaria symptoms are easily recognized and treated. The wonderful new drug, artesemate, is very efficacious and with few side effects.
Yes, I know very well that malaria is a killer disease. But in a place where treatment and drugs are plentiful and applied immediately, it is of little consequence.
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