I must not be lucky, because I have had malaria, as I wrote in my previous post.

Malaria has a case fatality rate of 3% or so, far less in healthy adults. I thinks that's about the same CFR as for swine flu, about which I never worried either, nor did I get a swine flu shot (I bet you guessed that already).

With prompt and proper treatment, the overwhelming majority of healthy adults will make a complete recovery. Can't say that for many other diseases.

Yep, malaria can be a nasty disease. Those who actually run a serious risk of getting it may have cause take precautions. Visitors to South Africa need not. If they absolutely want to worry, then let them worry about traffic (over 300 foreigners die on SA roads every year) or crime (a handful of deaths every year). The number of foreigners killed in traffic accidents exceeds the number of South Africans killed by malaria by a factor of four or more.

Heck, the chance of a tourist being killed by a lion or elephant in a game reserve, extremely low as it is, is higher than that of one succumbing to malaria.

As far as I'm concerned, any KNP visitor who takes malaria prophylactics is either misinformed or nuts. The chance of suffering unpleasant side-effects is much higher than getting malaria. I've long since lost count of the number of tourist I've met in Kruger suffering from nausea, stomach cramps etc. because they were on Doxycyline or Lariam. Can't say I feel all that sorry for them.

Johan