Thankfully I know nothing about malaria other than what I've read but it
sounds pretty grim. I'm reading chapter one (quinine) of
Seeds of Change
and the description of the changes in the blood cells as well as the
symptoms and long term effects on the liver etc do not make a happy
read
Dwardo makes a very good point about the side-effects noted on
regular meds as well as antibiotics - the full listing for all UK drugs
is available at the eMC (electronic medicines compendium) and
is quite interesting / sobering reading - hence it's quite sensible to
compare with paracetamol!
The SPC (Summary of Product Characteristics) is the "more than
you wanted to know" of patient information and the PIL is the patient
information leaflet (the instruction / advice leaflet enclosed with the
medication).
http://emc.medicines.org.uk
Type in the name of your drug and baulk as the side-effects unfold
before you
The BNF (British National Formulary) has lots of useful information
about antimalarials - it's free to register and use at
http://www.bnf.org
Stuart's PDF covers everything though.
As to mozzies being drawn to some more than others - that certainly
seems to be very likely. At the Royal Society summer exhibition (by
the way it's great, on every year, go if you get the chance!) this year
a team were displaying work they'd done on "why do mosquitoes
always pick on me?"
http://www.royalsoc.ac.uk/news.asp?year=&id=4871
Speaking of more than you wanted to know about malaria - The
Wellcome Trust have a malaria CD-ROM:
http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/node5816.html
and a dedicated malaria website:
http://malaria.wellcome.ac.uk/
Jo