BANGKOK (Reuters) - I'd always been under the impression that malaria, if treated quickly, was no worse than a bad bout of `flu -- a bit of a temperature and some aches and pains but nothing too severe.
After a week in hospital hooked up to quinine and saline drips, followed by two weeks off work, followed by a bout of a different form of the parasite, followed by another two weeks off work, that view has changed.
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