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Adebayor got malaria....

Achap

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The Spurs Family's reaction to one of its players - through no fault of his own - contracting a serious ailment is quite heart-warming.
 

SpurSince57

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Adebayor probably does have a virulent strain. Presumably he caught it in Cote D'Ivoire where 85% of malaria is P. Falciparum (the nasty one) and Cote D'Ivoire has one of the highest death rates in the world from malaria. The good news however, is that unlike a lot of malaria from SE Asia it's unlikely to be drug resistant and they sound like they've caught it early. He probably only caught it in the first place because he skipped taking his prophylactic antimalarials that the Spurs doctors would have insisted on so frankly my sympathy is pretty damn low.

It's all relative however. With treatment Adebayor will only suffer the equivalent of a bad bout of the flu. Compared with African Trypanosomiasis which untreated kills you 100% of the time (and the drug that may cure you melts plastic and kills you 5% of the time on its own) or naegleria, the brain eating amoeba that kills 97% of its victims even with best treatment (and leaves the rest brain damaged), malaria isn't so bad.

We had this eight years ago when Zokora went down with it a couple of months into the season. Some idiots were all but offering prayers for his recovery. He was back in training within a fortnight.
 

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He;s back in training. Lets hope he can get fit and raring to go for the start of the season.

Edit; Not sure of the policy in regards to official photos posted on FB and allowing them in here..I'll delete if needed (y)
 

SandroClegane

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He;s back in training. Lets hope he can get fit and raring to go for the start of the season.

Edit; Not sure of the policy in regards to official photos posted on FB and allowing them in here..I'll delete if needed (y)
And now we can look back and see who all the assclowns were bashing him in this thread...
 
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