Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:11:35 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <20011013011135.B343@lpt.ens.fr> In-Reply-To: <3BC737D8.1A856AFA@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:35:04AM -0700 References: <20011010233539.G83192@lpt.ens.fr> <007f01c15220$a92e4ee0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20011011095845.B475@lpt.ens.fr> <3BC560CC.265B97BC@mindspring.com> <20011011151552.B26149@lpt.ens.fr> <3BC737D8.1A856AFA@mindspring.com>
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Terry Lambert said on Oct 12, 2001 at 11:35:04: > 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. > > It's generally available from any doctor in the U.S., if > you have a reason to get it. I kind of doubt it. As David Scheidt wrote in another mail, it's a topic of active research. There are some preliminary vaccines in the trial process, but given what you yourself wrote about the long-drawn testing process in the US, I doubt your father would have been given those unless he was part of these trial groups. Certainly, it's not "generally available." > You can also get immunized for Hepatitus A & B, there is > an experimental vaccine for C, and you can get one for > tuberculosis, smallpox, anthrax, and a number of others, Sure. Smallpox is eradicated, or so everyone hopes, and vaccines for others are well known but not recommended except for risk groups; also, the common vaccine for tuberculosis (BCG) doesn't always work -- some say it hardly ever works. But we were talking of malaria. R To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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