I’ve been asked to write an article on tick fever. Should be easy, right? A common disease that is pretty straightforward. A lot of people are diagnosed as tick fever, some vets diagnose it in dogs routinely. By coincidence, our last visit to a vet and a doctor in Botswana both suggested tick fever. Only […]
Here are 7 common sense rulesto prevent you from going home in a box or getting medevac’d early. 1) HAKUNA MATATU The ubiquitous matatu is not designed as a people carrier and they are dangerous. The seats are sometimes simply pot-riveted to the floor and when they have a collision they rip out and everything is thrown […]
So what is the best advice? People ignore medical advice anyway: they drink too much, eat too much, smoke, and work on weekends. And they’re going to go in the lakes and rivers. Water sports are healthy exercise: it’s difficult to smoke a cigarette when you’re waterskiing. The best advice is advice that people might follow: so […]
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Some countries have started vaccination, many countries have lifted restrictions and children are back in school, most countries except Europe and North America have opened their borders. 80 countries, including big countries like India, Pakistan and most of Africa now have daily case numbers below 1 per 100,000 population. But the world news continues to […]
Covid Test
“I want a covid test.” What is a covid test and what do they mean? Tests explained First of all a warning. A lot of what you have been led to believe about tests is probably wrong. There are many tests. Some are difficult, expensive, done by very few countries and mostly reserved for research. […]
Many people are wondering why so many people are still scared of Covid. I read an article in a British newspaper where people in UK, Japan and another country were asked what percentage of their population had died from Covid. The average guess was 6%. 6%?! No wonder so many people are so scared! The […]
As the world wearies of trying to suppress the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many of us are wondering what the future will look like as we try to learn to live with it. Will it always have the capacity to make us so sick? Will our immune systems learn — and remember — how to cope with […]
Covid-19: What’s new? 27.03.2020
The number of reported cases passes half a million with 22,000 deaths. USA now has the highest number of reported cases. It is now obvious that the more you test the more you find which is why after testing half a million people the USA found so many cases. The good news is the number […]