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Jason,

You wrote:
> More relevant is the mode of action of the prophylactic in
> question, for which we need the advice not of a geneticist, nor a
> doctor, but a phamacologist.

No. Like diving, you need the *experience* of someone who actually sees,
and treats wussie tourists who get malaria. Wussie tourists get different
disease than people who live in malaria endemic areas, e.g., macho sickle
cell types. (It's "sickle", like fate George, nothing to do with bikers).

A small number of tourists who get malaria die each year. Usually because
(a) they weren't taking any or the right prophylaxis (divespeak: bad
planning, wrong equipment) and (b) went to the wrong kind of doctor who
thought they just had the 'flu (divespeak: consulted a stroke). The number
who die each year is probably about the same as the number of people who
die doing deep air, but both events are prevented by following Rule No.1

-ph

"Laughing longer with the best medicine"

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