Or should I say mosquitoes, mosquitoes everywhere? There are mosquitoes all around-at the dorm, in the hospital, on or walk in between. And there is no shortage of severe malaria all around. Malaria is such an awful disease which can make a perfectly healthy child very sick in so many ways. There is cerebral malaria, complete with seizures and altered mental status, and children can be obtunded for days. The amazing part is when the kids get better, they just sit up and start eating, and then walk out the next day.
We have a very sad case in the NICU right now. The baby was born "depressed," meaning it dit not breathe spontaneously and was limp. He was put on oxygen, but when we arrived to see him, he began seizing. He seemed to have sustained some sort of birth injury, since he had a cephalohematoma. We gave him all the treatment we had available, and tried to do a head ultrasound, but did not have the right probe. The next day, he was floppy, and his pupils were fixed and dilated. We are all very sad for him.
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