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Quote Originally Posted by aromulus View Post

i agree of the risk being real, but i have family there who has lived in the philippines all their life, non of them caught malaria. and we do not take risk, i make sure that my husband and son use OFF lotion and reapply every 3 hrs. on our trips home i have to admit we rarely get bitten by mosquitoes using the off lotion.
After living all her life in Cebu, my sister in law died of Dengue last year, and her 10 year old nephew the year before, in a different location....