From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Oct 12 16:14: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from postfix2-2.free.fr (postfix2-2.free.fr [213.228.0.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19DDF37B407 for ; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 16:14:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bluerondo.a.la.turk (nas-cbv-4-25-94.dial.proxad.net [213.228.25.94]) by postfix2-2.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id D62CF5F87B for ; Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:13:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: (qmail 421 invoked by uid 1001); 12 Oct 2001 23:11:35 -0000 Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 01:11:35 +0200 From: Rahul Siddharthan To: Terry Lambert Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Use of the UNIX Trademark Message-ID: <20011013011135.B343@lpt.ens.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Terry Lambert , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BC737D8.1A856AFA@mindspring.com>; from tlambert2@mindspring.com on Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 11:35:04AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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