Sick In The Tropics

Mary Oluonye
3 min readJun 8, 2022
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Three days. I’m still weak. I still feel sick, but better. For 36 hours, I could not eat, and could only take sips of water.

I still have no clue of what I had.

Some thought I had malaria. But I didn’t think so.

You see, I’ve had malaria several times before, and while the symptoms mimicked malaria in some ways — the fever, the nausea, the weakness — there were enough things…

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Mary Oluonye

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