![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She learn to not devote too much time to lost causes and to set priorities. What did Dettwyler learn from Daouda? She learned to pick her battles with care. She finally realizes that Daouda's mother is mentally retarded and Daouda is a lost cause. Dettwyler begs the mother to feed starving Daouda but never seems to learn. Hospital (20 mins away) Example of Daouda Daouda is a starving little boy who is always with his mother while she works as a house servant for the Fat Lady in Timbuktu. Use wells, cook by fire, use open-air pit latrine Health Services -Herbalists: first choice About 655,000 people died (mostly children) Malaria Symptoms Headache, fever, shivering, joint pain, vomiting, hemolytic anemia Cerebral Malaria 20-30% of cases blood cells attach to vessels and capillaries in the brain causes headaches, seizure disconjugate gaze Magnambougou -No electricity, no running water Medication (strains are becoming resistant), but no vaccination Malaria Statistics -In 2010, there were 216 mil cases of malaria worldwide Kay -> severe headaches for weeks, took all medicine turns out she had a resistant strain of cerebral malaria Malaria -The death of 2 friends in Mali (as a result of this disease) in 1983 ended Dettwyler's 1st fieldwork. ![]()
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