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Old Dec 28, 2011 | 1:12 pm
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johan rebel
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Originally Posted by JDiver
Amazing how mosquitoes just don't care how upscale the accommodation is.
True, but upscale lodges go to far greater lengths to make life miserable for mosquitoes. You can expect proper full-size impregnated bednets without holes, rooms that are sprayed daily (and anually with DDT in South Africa), as well as lodge grounds where all pools, puddles and other potential mosquito breeding sites have been drained or poisoned. It is quite possible to spend a week or longer at a game lodge in the rainy season and not encounter a single mosquito. I speak from experience.

Malaria is nothing you should worry about as a game lodge guest. The chances of getting it are extremely low, and if you do anyway it is something that can easily be dealt with. Unless you are very young, old, frail, sick or simply stupid, it is not going to be fatal.

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