[Several problems with that line of thinking. One, a vaccine against Malaria only targets the species of the parasite that causes the disease. There are five different species of the Plasmodium parasite, and they would have given a shot against Plasmodium falciparum. It's the truly deadly one...
(If you're sick as a dog, and only feeling like you want to die, then it's likely the vivax strain. That's the most common.)
And even then, vaccines require days to take proper effect. The immune system has to be triggered, levels of antibodies have to build, the disease has to be imprinted into molecular memory. They are never insta cures. The people vaccinated before the draft were going in with scant protection at best; the hope that the rising levels of antibodies within their bloodstream would lessen the severity of the illness should they catch something.]
It's going to require me taking some blood later.
[Reason one of why checking for malaria (and monitoring treatment) is such a bitch: he'll have to search through the blood film on an entire slide on high power under the microscope, manually count how many parasites there are per thousand cells, and then calculate the ratio of parasite to red blood cells present. Reason two: he has to keep doing this repeatedly until the patient is clean, and then after that, he still has to do it occassionally, because the damn parasite has a tendancy to hide in the liver and resurge unless the cocktail of medications manages to wipe it out in the blood and tissues.] But for now, if you'll open wide?
[He's got to take your temperature with that thremometer he's got.]
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(If you're sick as a dog, and only feeling like you want to die, then it's likely the vivax strain. That's the most common.)
And even then, vaccines require days to take proper effect. The immune system has to be triggered, levels of antibodies have to build, the disease has to be imprinted into molecular memory. They are never insta cures. The people vaccinated before the draft were going in with scant protection at best; the hope that the rising levels of antibodies within their bloodstream would lessen the severity of the illness should they catch something.]
It's going to require me taking some blood later.
[Reason one of why checking for malaria (and monitoring treatment) is such a bitch: he'll have to search through the blood film on an entire slide on high power under the microscope, manually count how many parasites there are per thousand cells, and then calculate the ratio of parasite to red blood cells present. Reason two: he has to keep doing this repeatedly until the patient is clean, and then after that, he still has to do it occassionally, because the damn parasite has a tendancy to hide in the liver and resurge unless the cocktail of medications manages to wipe it out in the blood and tissues.] But for now, if you'll open wide?
[He's got to take your temperature with that thremometer he's got.]