Have you ever had malaria yourself? Or do you know what it feels like to have a disease like malaria?

Question: Have you ever had malaria yourself? Or do you know what it feels like to have a disease like malaria?
- Keywords:
  disease,
  malaria
Asked by harty to Julian on 15 Mar 2011.
- Julian Rayner answered on 15 Mar 2011:
  
  Hi harty.
  
  No, I have never had malaria myself – with 300-500 million cases each year, the world really doesn’t need another one. I have spent enough time in wards with very sick children in them to know that I don’t ever want to have it if I can help it, and that spending a career trying to prevent some people from catching should be a career well spent.

Question: Have you ever had malaria yourself? Or do you know what it feels like to have a disease like malaria?