Talk:Malaria

There should be a mention of Ali Maow Maalin here - the peculiar conjunction of three diseases. 82.44.143.26 (talk) 18:08, 10 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Don't let me stop you. Peace. AgingHippie (talk) 18:10, 10 February 2015 (UTC)

Malaria was once seriously used to cure another disease
Unfortunately WP does not go into much detail on this. Apparently it worked. Goes to show how desperate people must have felt about Syphilis... Pizzameister (talk) 16:58, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * That's like inviting Stalin to drive out Hitler...--Kugelschreiber (talk) 17:06, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Well that worked too, didn't it? Pizzameister (talk) 17:22, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * Indeed.--Kugelschreiber (talk) 17:23, 10 February 2016 (UTC)
 * I have heard it claimed if you get a less dangerous strain of malaria and don't treat it, it will prevent infection by more dangerous strains, but it's possible for mosquitoes to carry more than one strain at a time, so this is unlikely to be true. Bongolian (talk) 18:00, 10 February 2016 (UTC)