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Forums > Living in Kunming > Anti Malarial - Malerone

@kawakarpo
As stated before the change of contracting malaria are not that big and nowadays good and effective treatment is available. This makes the need for prophylactic treatment less needed.
Your indications of where you go are rather global. If you stay at an air-conditioned hotel in these places your chance of contracting malaria are pretty slim. If you stay with local farmers, especially when they have pigs then your change of contracting malaria and dengue are much bigger.
Burgon stated that he would be staying in the jungle for a couple of weeks. Question is is this the real jungle or not, for some people 5Km outside Kunming is already jungle (And for some any other street apart from Wenlinjie)
Much depends on your own protective measures; long sleeves, long trousers and closed shoes make quite a difference. Protecting exposed skin with DEET and sleeping under a good mosquito net. As said malaria is well treatable especially if artisunate is at hand. Dengue is a completely different story and should be avoided at all cost. The protective measures are the same as for malaria.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Anti Malarial - Malerone

@Dazzer
Evil pharma:
You are very unlikely to find Malerone in rural Laos (And if they are probably fake).
This for the simple reason that it is far the expensive for that population.
Glaxo Wellcome markets the stuff claiming its level of side effects is less than other anti malarials. This is true but by doing so it execrated the levels of side effects of its competitors. Especially Mefloquine can have serious side effects and stressing this was a good way of marketing Malerone.
This way they can keep the prices for the stuff very high at at least 2 USD/day for prophylactic use.
Glaxo Wellcome did provide some Malerone to anti malaria programs but this was largely seen as a way to polish up their image.
At the same time Malerone came on the market Artemisinin-based combination therapy was introduced and this turned out to be very effective and cheaper than Malerone. Without this Glaxo Wellcome could have made a killing on Malerone. Now Malerone is mainly marketed at those seeking a prophylactic against malaria.

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Forums > Living in Kunming > Anti Malarial - Malerone

@Geezer
Well if as you say yourself that you do not know how significant the malaria problem is than shut up and don’t contribute to the discussion.

The lack of availability of anti malaria medication in Kunming is indeed due to the absence of malaria here but he already stated that he would go into the jungle of Laos.
In rural Laos there is plenty of anti malaria medication. It's on the shelf next to the Prozac.

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@Dazzer
Geezer is right that this was addressed at him as well because he is the one quoting from things like: Breitbart.com, Dailycaller.com and Nationalreview.com and the like. Member of what I call the Breitbart crowd.

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