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Originally Posted by Stobey
They weren't looking for it. This blindsided them.
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This shouldn't be "blindsiding" anyone at this point. While not nearly in the same category as say the bubonic plague or typhoid fever. The first medical question should be, "have you traveled outside the United States recently, say to West Africa?"
Not to go off topic, but we once had a guy return from a deployment to Southeast Asia and developed all the S/S of malaria. He went to the hospital twice with no diagnosis or treatment. Blood test negative...
A few of us team medics ran his blood under a microscope in the team room and there it was, P. Falciparum malaria clear as the day we were in school.
Sent him back over to the the hospital and told them to do a manual blood exam...duh! The "machine" they were using did not identify malaria so he went undiagnosed for two weeks. Modern medicine!
He got better shortly thereafter. 'Cept that for a few weeks he was a U.S. present host to an eradicated disease in America. Blindsided medical doctors, or just blind!
