They'd have to drink a reservoir's worth, I think, for it to be effective.

Tonic water contains no more than 83 mg of quinine per liter—a much lower concentration than the 500 to 1,000 mg in the therapeutic dose of quinine tablets.

The obvious answer, then, is to increase the "dosage"...

Pints of G&T all round! Chug! Chug! Chug! ha ha...

Yes, I'm being facetious... 😉

Sorry, it's a coping mechanism.

And meantime, in sunny, far off Mongolia, a teenager has succumbed to Bubonic plague...

The World can certainly pick it's moments to seem a bleak and cheerless place...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-15/mongolian-teenager-dies-of-bubonic-plague/12459306

But on the plus side, the chances of that plague striking us, here, are so infinitesimally small as to be not worth worrying about.

Stay well, people. Smile, Cry, whatever it takes...

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@ecar3483 wrote:

 

And meantime, in sunny, far off Mongolia, a teenager has succumbed to Bubonic plague...

The World can certainly pick it's moments to seem a bleak and cheerless place...

 

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-07-15/mongolian-teenager-dies-of-bubonic-plague/12459306

 

But on the plus side, the chances of that plague striking us, here, are so infinitesimally small as to be not worth worrying about.

 

Stay well, people. Smile, Cry, whatever it takes...

 

🙂

 

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That's strange, I always thought it was the fleas on the rats that spread the plague, not the actual rats.......but this article seems to be blaming eating the marmots (rat like critters)🤔

Amber, in answer to your question, I'll refer you to the CDC's excellent website.

https://emergency.cdc.gov/agent/plague/faq.asp

How do people become infected with plague?

People most commonly acquire plague when they are bitten by a flea that is infected with the plague bacteria. People can also become infected from direct contact with infected tissues or fluids while handling an animal that is sick with or that has died from plague. Finally, people can become infected from inhaling respiratory droplets after close contact with cats and humans with pneumonic plague.

I hope that helps.

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I'm guessing that when the front garden, here, was first established, native plants were all the rage.

As a result, there are a handful of wattle trees that are now starting to show their age, ha ha...

The trouble with wattles is that as they age, the borers get into them and turn their insides into sawdust.

All it takes, from there, is a decent gust of wind, or an enthusiastic bird landing on the now dead tree, and down it comes...

The wattle in question, rather than growing a central trunk, and branches from there, split in four, early on, and grew, in effect, four trunks...

That's a lot of dead branches to tidy up... ha ha...

To give you an idea, I half filled the green bin with twigs and bits of wood....

Am I glad that when Aldi had loppers on sale, I thought to myself "Yeah, that looks like it could come in handy..."?

You're damned right, I am, ha ha...

Secateurs are good, but tedious if you're trying to cut through something more than about a centimetre thick.

Loppers, on the other hand make short work of pretty much anything, ha ha...

So now I've got a neatly trimmed fifteen, or so, foot long trunk/branch to play with...

Hopefully, the borers haven't gotten into it too far, or weakened it, as I can see it being trimmed to suit and turned into bridges for birds, ha ha...

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Carve a pumpkin for Halloween?

Sure, that sounds easy...

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It's a shame that second hand bookshops are becoming a rarity.

I used to find the most interesting titles when browsing... ha ha...

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