From MALCOLM JACKSON
I read with interest Phyllida Brown’s article regarding malaria (‘Who
cares about malaria’, 31 October).
Last year I went on a motorcycling and camping holiday to the South
of France. It was in August and very warm, the first week that I was there
it amazed me that almost everyone else in the campsites was covered in mosquito
bites but I did not have a single one.
I put it down to the amount of beer and wine I was consuming, until
at the end of the first week I lost my bar of Wright’s Coal Tar Soap. A
day later I became a target for the mosquitos. I don’t know whether this
was coincidence and wonder if anyone else has had a similar experience.
Malcolm Jackson Chislehurst, Kent
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