Another sleepless night with headache and fever and I’d had enough. At Kajaani District Hospital, they plated out a blood film and confirmed the diagnosis, but had to send me further across the country to Oulu University Hospital for treatment.
But Malaria? How? I came back from South East Asia six weeks ago. Why did I not get it out there? Why has it come on now? And how did I get it when I was taking prophylactics. The last is easiest to answer. I had agreed with the practice nurse that I only needed to take Malarone in the high risk zone and since it was not the rainy season, this was Laos. But I also went to the jungle in Cambodia – down near the coast in the Cardamom Hills. And there I know the buggers got me! So was I just too fit and eager for them to get a hold then? Did they lurk in wait somewhere in my reticulo-endothelial system until that unique Finnish combination of exhaustion and physiological stressors made them sit up. ‘Hey, guys, it’s the sauna again. Now’s our chance!’
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