Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 17:57:37 -0400 (EDT) From: David Scheidt <rufus@brain.mics.net> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in>, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com>, cjclark@alum.mit.edu, Salvo Bartolotta <bartequi@neomedia.it>, "P. U. (Uli) Kruppa" <root@pukruppa.de>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.20.0110121743520.10629-100000@brain.mics.net> In-Reply-To: <3BC737D8.1A856AFA@mindspring.com>
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On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, Terry Lambert wrote: > Rahul Siddharthan wrote: > > > > We still don't have anything for malaria beyond quinine, > > > > > > Actually, we have a vaccine. > > > > References? > > Certainly, there isn't one in general use. > > My father took it before his trip to the Amazon with the > University of Pennsylvania alumni association. It made > him sick as a dog for a good two weeks. He took a malaria prophylatic, like Mefloquine or Malarone, not a vaccine. There's a big and important difference. A vaccine would provide lasting immunity from a small number of doses, a prophylactic is only effective while it is being taken (or for shortly after). Widespread use of malaria prophylactics have greatly increased the instance of drug resistance in many parts of the world; a vaccine wouldn't likely do that, though of course, new strains may appear that aren't protected against, as is the case with the flu vaccine. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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