[LorenPechtel]

Very, very interesting--I have always assumed I inherited my mother's issues. Docs have done stool tests, nothing--but as it says they are prone to false negatives. The labs aren't good with the rare stuff. I almost certainly came down with malaria but made the "mistake" of going to the doc my wife worked with. GP, but he did work with DWB and had plenty of clinical experience with malaria. Labs come back a week later--they weren't set up to do the simple swab he ordered and substituted the closest thing they had which wasn't close at all. Came back "negative" so I'm not in the CDC data. The thing is I'm pretty sure of the initial infection point--20+ years earlier. At the time, three rounds of it before I got back to the states and talked to a tropical medicine guy. No symptoms at the time so he wasn't sure what he did would get it all. Never actually lab-diagnosed by the fever pattern is obvious and it responded to chloroquine but I was in an area with some resistance and couldn't take the right drug.

Do you know anybody else who does this sort of thing?