Originally Posted by
TheManager
Wow. Good friend of mine did some flying in Africa for Bombardier. He contracted Malaria and died at the age of 46. He went to a hospital, actually several. Columbia University Medical Center in New York and UCLA Cedars Sinai, all terrific institutions. Passed away a little more than a year after contracting it from liver failure.
Delta has gone to great lengths to educate and provide meds to its employes. You might want to consider deleting such an irresponsible statement.
Originally Posted by
newKnow
I know two grown, healthy, and fairly young guys who almost died from it.
For this post, I nominate you for tool of the day.
37 people in Georgia alone have died from the flu this winter. I admit "not a big deal" was a poor choice of words when it is a big deal, but what I was trying to strike at is, avoiding Africa because of malaria related deaths akin to Foreigners avoiding the US because of Flu related deaths.