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Post by lapourtaider on Oct 7, 2021 7:13:02 GMT 1
15 years in France and today I discover that the french word for malaria is paludisme. Wow👍
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Post by houpla on Oct 7, 2021 7:54:18 GMT 1
I've been expecting it to arrive here in the SW for quite a while. We've got termites, Asian wasps and hornets and tiger mosquitoes, all arrived via Bordeaux and thrive in this climate. IF the global warming stuff is correct, then I suspect that malaria-carrying mozzies will be next to arrive and survive. Oh joy
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Post by Nifty on Jun 3, 2022 10:53:58 GMT 1
Members only to the Old Paludians Association
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Post by pcpa on Jun 3, 2022 11:20:13 GMT 1
I was recovering from Malaria when I came to France so it was one that I learned very early.
During my initial intensive French course I spoke with an elderly French gentleman who explained that Palu was finally eradicated in France in his lifetime, he explained that it was once believed to be contracted from breathing the air around the putrefaction of swamps etc and the word Malaria came from the Italian (I think) "Mal Aria" for "bad air"
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Post by Nifty on Jun 3, 2022 11:27:14 GMT 1
Attachment DeletedI would not have though that it was exclusive to swamps. My great uncle contracted it in the desert in Mesopotamia in ww1.
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Post by pcpa on Jun 3, 2022 11:56:42 GMT 1
No-one is suggesting that it is or was, it's simply what was believed by people who knew they should avoid these dank areas to remain healthy before it was known that mosquitos were actually the vector.
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Post by exile on Jun 3, 2022 12:04:36 GMT 1
Malaria mosquitoes need standing water for their nymphs to grow. I was therefore endemic in parts of the UK around the Thames estuary around Dartford, Gravesend and Rainham Essex.
This (need for water) was discovered I believe during the building of the Panama canal where beds in the hospital were stood in bowls of water to prevent crawling insects and arachnids from crawling up the bed legs and biting the victims.
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Post by pcpa on Jun 3, 2022 12:36:13 GMT 1
In living memory of a friend my age landowners here with land around the Somme marshes were collecting a Paludisme subvention in order to maintain their land in a certain manner.
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Post by Nifty on Jun 3, 2022 13:39:37 GMT 1
There is a chateau near us that I thought was built by an engineer that was instrumental in building thr Suez or/and Panama canals.
I was trying to find some backup info. I am sure there is plenty to be found out about the sacrifices of our forefathers but I was surprised to see that apparently over 22,000 workers died during the French effort to build the Panama Canal, many of them from malaria and yellow fever.
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