Problem is not so much the bug being different its the conditions you might be staying or living in and the lack of decent medical help/food clean water. That can make a mediocre set of symptoms we might think of as bad here in the uK to very life threatening in some places. As westerners we do not have the natural immunity and resilience to the infections that may affect locals to a lesser degree. In 1983 I ended up being medi vacced out of East Africa to France then the UK with a case of Botulism -
one of the other lads in our party who also contracted the illness died very quickly through respiratory failure. We were then young fit and strong military servicemen with at least a back up of military doctors. get something like that when your away - you will be kissing goodbye too this life before you know whats hit you.
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