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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, al

by briandw 20d ago

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.

crossroadsguy 20d ago
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.
- greenavocado 20d ago
  Is that the one where the degree of immunity is negative post infection
  - wbl 20d ago
    Yup. But OP is now eligible for a vaccine!
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    - crossroadsguy 20d ago
      I just looked up and my country approved its first dengue vaccine last month. Maybe I should enquire about it :D
  - crossroadsguy 20d ago
    If you mean the specific strain then I do not know which one it was (I ). But yeah if I get bitten by another dengue strain then the immunity works against me. So (afaik; roughly speaking) I have ≈100% immunity against my strain and sort of negative immunity against the rest three. I just looked up my test report from years ago and it just says NS1 rapid antigen test and that one doesn't find which of DENV-1(-2, -3, -4) it was.
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- rikschennink 20d ago
  Got it as well a couple years ago, it was no joke. :/ Luckily we could get vaccinated a year later. If you’ve had it and catch another variant mortality rate jumps to 10%. But usually those variants don’t overlap, it’s region based.
- landgenoot 20d ago
  I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.
mk89 20d ago
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/gesundheitsamt-informiert-zu-malaria-faellen-am-flughafen/ https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...
- klipt 20d ago
  Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)

by briandw 20d ago

crossroadsguy 20d ago

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.

greenavocado 20d ago
Is that the one where the degree of immunity is negative post infection
- wbl 20d ago
  Yup. But OP is now eligible for a vaccine!
  - deleted 20d ago
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  - crossroadsguy 20d ago
    I just looked up and my country approved its first dengue vaccine last month. Maybe I should enquire about it :D
- crossroadsguy 20d ago
  If you mean the specific strain then I do not know which one it was (I ). But yeah if I get bitten by another dengue strain then the immunity works against me. So (afaik; roughly speaking) I have ≈100% immunity against my strain and sort of negative immunity against the rest three. I just looked up my test report from years ago and it just says NS1 rapid antigen test and that one doesn't find which of DENV-1(-2, -3, -4) it was.
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rikschennink 20d ago
Got it as well a couple years ago, it was no joke. :/ Luckily we could get vaccinated a year later. If you’ve had it and catch another variant mortality rate jumps to 10%. But usually those variants don’t overlap, it’s region based.
landgenoot 20d ago
I think Qdenga was approved in India very recently.

mk89 20d ago

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/gesundheitsamt-informiert-zu-malaria-faellen-am-flughafen/ https://frankfurt.de/de-de/aktuelle-meldung/meldungen/gesund...

klipt 20d ago
Malaria tropica (the disease) maps 1:1 to Plasmodium falciparum (the parasite that causes this disease)