Re: Malaria in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia

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Re: Malaria in Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia

Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2003 21:33:56 EST

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 18:56:30 +0000 (UTC), ese002@news9.exile.org (Eric
Edwards) wrote:

>On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 10:20:40 GMT, Pan wrote:
>>The Ministry of Health there told us that malaria is only in the deep
>>jungles nowadays.
>
>Oh you mean like Bako, Mulu, Tamain Negaria, Kinabatangan, and
>Danum Valley?

I'm not the Malaysian Ministry of Health. You'll have to ask them.

However, I was travelling only on the Peninsula.

>>Malaysia is a pretty highly developed country.
>
>Certainly. However, much tourism in Malaysia is to remote jungles.
>I wouldn't bank on the absence of malaria in the cities as being
>terribly meaningful if the purpose of the trip was to go trekking in the
>jungle.

I was all over populated areas of Terengganu, not only in cities, and
including Ulu Terengganu, and the Ministry of Health knew that I would
be in those areas.

But if your purpose is to trek in the jungle, obviously the admonition
that "malaria is only in the deep jungles" applies to you.

Michael

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