FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MALARIA SERVER.
We do not answer specific questions about drug prophylaxis in malaria on this list. The reason is that the choice of drug is complex and depends on among other factors, your previous medical history and the exact destination and length of stay. Proper prophylaxis involves other measures apart from drug therapy. You should consult your personal physician.
Additionally, the giving of medical advice by individuals renders them potentially liable if the advice should be incorrect. No-one wishes to become the first physician sued for Internet malpractice.
Publicly available information about the status of malaria in different countries may be obtained from the following URLs.
a)International Travel and Health, WHO's "Yellow Book", will be available on the WHOSIS (WHO Statistical Information System) via the WWW in the not too distant future. There may even be a clickable world map sometime thereafter.
b)One can also refer to CDC's Travel Information Page, where there is already a clickable map, too.
c)Current National Health and Medical Research Council Recommendations for malaria prophylaxis for Australians travelling to malaria endemic areas are available. The Malaria directory also includes a file copied from the CDC gopher on recommendations for US citizens.
****** Our advice is to contact your physician or travel medicine clinic.
You may not be (see below). To find out, send a message to listserv@wehi.edu.au
Leave the message line blank and in the body of the message put
recipients malaria
You will be mailed a list of all people subscribed to the malaria list. Check if you are still there. If not resubscribe.
jbloggs@institute.org.country
And you always get email when someone sends email to that address.
The troubles arise when the sending desktop has other ideas.
Ther are many complicating scenarios - here is one: if your email package
on your desktop computer or even a set of computers in your office area or
lab is not configured to emit the above as your email address when you use
email then "listserv" is going to have trouble. If you use say desktop
computer that is named for example pc123. But the email preferences are
not configured properly so any email from that machine has a return/reply
address of
jbloggs@pc123.institute.org.country
You are blissfully unaware. For replies to this address, your central email delivery server always looks after these oddities and treats it as jbloggs@institute.org.country and delivers your mail to where you want it. It could be that you use dozens of different desktops to send email all with incomplete mail setups so your mail goes out under all sorts of guises
jbloggs@xxxx.institute.org.country
But thanks to your well configured central mail delivery server for the
domain "institute.org.country", all replies and returns always get treated
as "jbloggs@institute.org.country" and are sent to the same mail system
and host no matter what.
But the MALARIA listserv does not know about your internal email configs
and adds you as it sees you:
jbloggs@pc123.institute.org.country
And therefore you have to be "jbloggs@pc123.institute.org.country" to
unsubscribe from the list!!
All this has become more prevalent with the use of self configured Netscape amd
MS IE browsers as email tools.
So to unsubscribe from the MALARIA list, use a computer with the email config
that you were using when you subscribed in the first place. Then you send an
email message to
listserv@wehi.edu.au
unsubscribe malaria
And absolutely nothing else!!!! And note that you are sending the message to
listserv@wehi.edu.au NOT malaria@wehi.edu.auNow if you cannot use an email system with the email config of when you subscribed (system config has changed, you email address has changed, you cannot remember how you subscribed....), then send a short polite request to
malariamgr@wehi.edu.au
requesting that you be deleted and please indicate what you think your subscription address might be. However remember time zones - manual requests to be deleted from the USA on a Friday (ie when it is already almost midnight Friday or later in Australia) will not reliably be attended to until Monday morning Melbourne Australian time - so you might still get two days or so malaria messages before the request is handled. (We are about 14 hrs ahead of US East coast time)
The list is run by an automatic program that monitors messages being sent out and received. If it notices that messages are persistently failing to get through to a particular e-mail address, it will eventually purge that address from the list. It does this to stop flooding the net with useless messages that bounce between machines.
However occasionally messages fail to get through for reasons related to network traffic or changes by local e-mail administrators. If this happens, it may trigger the programs purge routine. Therefore you may be dropped from the list even though you still want it.
Unfortunately there is not much I can do about this as it is coded into the listserver program I am using. The only alternative is to subscribe again by sending a message to listserv@wehi.edu.au
Send a one line message
subscribe malaria {Your Preferred name}
If the automatic program gets persistent failures in sending to your address, it puts you on an inactive status. Thus you are subscribed but no longer sent messages. To become an active recipient again send a message to listserv@wehi.edu.au
set malaria mail noack
Send a message to listserv@wehi.edu.au Leave the comment line blank and in the body of the message type
set malaria mail postpone
No messages will be sent to you until you change mode again. To resume receiving messages send the message to listserv@wehi.edu.au
set malaria mail noack
>I'd love the e-mail address
of this person. Do you have it?
To check e-mail addresses of members of the list send a message to listserv@wehi.edu.au
Leave the message line blank and in the body of the message put
recipients malaria
You will be mailed a list of all people currently subscribed to the malaria list including their e-mail addresses.
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