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The sad part is: This app is basically useless. Malaria has very distinct symptoms. Malaria also has a 3-day pre-roll period where you know you are about to get malaria, but you are not yet in bed. Also, Malaria is the #1 drug every chemist stocks in malaria-infested areas. Furthermore, taking a malaria pill even if you don't have malaria has no side effect.

What this means is that if all the criteria of bad luck come together:

1. Person does not know the symptoms for malaria

2. There is no chemist around who stocks malaria pills

3. The illness for some reason instantly hits the person without the pre-roll period

...then the person for whom all these criteria comes into question is about 99.99% not likely to have an Android phone around. And 100% not likely to have a lifelens attached to the phone.

parent maxklein 15 years ago

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