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Old 12-14-2004, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by grimgaunt
I have lived in the tropics, and yes - the plasmodium parasite stays in your system, took me 3 bouts before I was rid of it.

Look up the plasmodium vector cycle in 'Kumar and Robbins' (pathology text) and you'll find that it does recur.

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well thats closer to what I believed was what happened................as someone who is glad they have never gotten it.....by virtue of not being in a place it has not been mostly erradicated.
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