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briandwtoday at 6:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

They didn’t mention the strain. My understanding is that there are 5 strains. P. malariae is common and not particularly deadly while. When i visited Africa, all of the locals had had malaria multiple times. P. falciparum is extremely nasty and can kill quickly.


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mk89today at 7:28 PM

It's the Malaria tropica according to [0]:

> Im Zusammenhang mit den bereits bekannten sechs Fällen von Malaria tropica bei Personen, die am Flughafen Frankfurt am Main tätig sind, sind zwei Erkrankte verstorben

And a quick search says that this is the most dangerous one. Of course it had to be...

[0]:https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...

crossroadsguytoday at 7:01 PM

I had dengue once. Fever was something else! Since then I've been scared shitless that there are 3 other major variants remaining and if the next time is one of those 3 I am most probably cooked. There are no vaccines here yet either.

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