Letter from Cuavanale

Could the hallucinations be caused by the sounds and calls of frogs and insects crinkling out there creating unending lullabies throughout the nights?  But I really suspect it is these pills.  These anti-malaria tablets.  The mefloquine.

The Health Brief from National Geographic mentioned hallucinations as part of the side effects of taking Mefloquine.  But I do not have a choice. I cannot stop taking these tablets because the mosquitoes here do not mess around.  The swarms of deadly disease-carrying mozzies are out to get us here. Last week, they took down the expedition leader, Christopher Boyes and floored him with malaria. He had to be airlifted to the hospital with his body heating up to boiling temperatures.  But he is fine now and in fact, led us again to a new river – the Cuanavale River source lake.