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Homeopathic practices 'risk lives' (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5178488.stm)

...it's bloody dangerous!

...doctors have begun noticing some cases [of malaria] where patients have taken homeopathic remedies instead of licensed medicines.

Some have claimed that they were told that the homeopathic protection could be used instead of conventional medicine.

"We've certainly had patients admitted to our unit with falciparum, the malignant form of malaria, who have been taking homeopathic remedies - and without a doubt the fact that they were taking them and not effective drugs was the reason they had malaria,"

Hopefully millions of people will read this article and see sense rather than persisting in going along with the bullshit faux science that 'complementary medicine' gives them.

Bump.

"In the vast majority of cases they have fallen ill because they have not taken any anti-malaria tablets."

Is there an anti-malaria tablet? In the 1960’s, I took some while I was in Thailand. I asked the Doctor that deployed with is if they would prevent us from getting malaria. His reply was, "No."

So, I asked him why we should take them and he replied, "They will prevent you from getting the symptoms of malaria."

Then I asked him how I would know if I had contracted malaria and he replied, "When you quit taking the pills."

Now, I know medicine has made a lot of progress in the last 40 years, but I must ask; is there a pill that will prevent you from getting malaria?

"In the vast majority of cases they have fallen ill because they have not taken any anti-malaria tablets."

Is there an anti-malaria tablet? In the 1960’s, I took some while I was in Thailand. I asked the Doctor that deployed with is if they would prevent us from getting malaria. His reply was, "No."

So, I asked him why we should take them and he replied, "They will prevent you from getting the symptoms of malaria."

Then I asked him how I would know if I had contracted malaria and he replied, "When you quit taking the pills."

Now, I know medicine has made a lot of progress in the last 40 years, but I must ask; is there a pill that will prevent you from getting malaria?
Well, there's a delightful way to keep yourself from getting malaria that the Brits pioneered in India. Tonic water, for use for mixing with Gin. That's how I'm going to fight malaria next time I'm in the tropics.

Well, there's a delightful way to keep yourself from getting malaria that the Brits pioneered in India. Tonic water, for use for mixing with Gin. That's how I'm going to fight malaria next time I'm in the tropics.

Hear, hear Old Boy! ;)

Quinine (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinine)