The last 24 hours I started to feel a head cold coming on. I am extremely busy at work the past few day as my job has almost doubled with some company restructuring. As I do at home, I just sucked it up and continued to work through it. This afternoon rolls around and I started to feel the fever, aches and pains come on. One of my coworkers thought I should go to the clinic, to get checked out for malaria.
For malaria, it is best to find a local clean clinic for a test. They see so many tests and can spot it when North American doctors can’t. My co-worker, who has spent more time in Africa than out in the past 3 years came for a test also as he is leaving in 2 days.
Of course the newbie (me the big white dinka) comes back with a positive test for the nasty blood born parasite! The test took seconds, the wait for results, 10 minutes and the cost was 30 Pounds or approx. $10USD. The medication to cure it was 10 pounds or $3.30 USD! I expect in a day or two to feel back to normal!
The man in the clinic told me, “Hey man, you haven’t been to Africa till you get malaria”!
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