Malaria risk in Ghana?
huesos asked me: "If you don't mind my asking, what was your assesment of the malaria risk during your stay?"
I think the risk for long-term residents is substantial but not bad for a visitor if you simply take the precautions mentioned in the travel books.
1. Take an antimalarial drug before, during and after the trip. I chose the somewhat expensive daily tablet Malarone. Cheaper is the weekly (dreadful tasting) Lariam, but you have to study the possible side-effects and decide.
2. Use a mosquito-net wherever you sleep. I got used to this quickly and hardly noticed.
3. Wear long sleeves and long pants, and shoes.
4. Use DEET insect repellent.
The malaria-risk mosquito is nocturnal so the main problem is when you are out in the evening, not in the daytime. This may have influenced me to keep regular hours.
Incidentally, I got all possible inoculations before I went. I wasn't sick for one moment during three weeks, depite eating lots of local cooking and street food. I don't do that well in Mexico or even USA. I did stick to bottled water, except when a village chief offered me some local brew, in a gourd, that it would have uncouth for me to refuse.
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