Vitamin A deficiency and malaria
Malaria is a bad disease. What it does to people is a sad story. I do remember a young woman who died shortly after I carried her in my arms to a makeshift clinic in Darfur. Personally, I have had malaria two times, one of them combined with a huge pneumonia. One night, when I woke up in Darfur, delirious and feeling terrible,I knew immediately by instinct what was going on with me, but I had sufficient clarity of mind to think "If I feel like this, having the health and the body to cope with it, how bad must a little malnourished child feel with this disease?" (Saying that to myself was useful, because I stopped the brief encounter with self pity).
Years later, now in another context, other missions, I keep remembering that thought when I meet malaria. Now reading this article about the possibilities by the use of vitamin A as a support to respond to this infection, makes it one hope that one of these most cruel of diseases can be erradicated, if the world really wants it...IRIN news report: Vitamin A deficiency and malaria
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