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I'd be unhappy with that and wouldn't do it as a leisure trip. Just before his second birthday my son went from perfectly healthy and happy to an emergency hospital admission on a 90 min ferry crossing - and that was in Europe. They can't tell you they're not feeling well at that age, you have to work it out from their behavior and with all the other stuff that would be going on it's easy to take your eye off the ball and be grateful they're quiet for a while. I've seen young children with malaria in Mali and it's not a risk I'd have taken with either of mine.
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"I did it and it was fine"
"I read a blog about a family who did it and they were fine".

Bollocks.

Children under five especially DIE quickly and easily if they get malaria which is endemic - ENDEMIC - in sub-Saharan Africa.

You would be a prize ****in' idiot to voluntarily expose your child to that risk.

I can't say it any clearer than that.

No need to take my opinion on it - google the advice from WHO or anyone who knows what they are talking about and see what they say.

Just sayin'......
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Risk for 2 year old girl
Many thanks for your replies.
I will forward them on to my son who is planning the trip

I question the risk of child snatching in some countries.

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