Malaria (cont.)
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Prevention
- For people traveling to areas where malaria exists, prevention is perhaps the most important aspect of managing the disease. See your doctor well before you travel, because some medications need to be started before you travel.
- Several medications are used to prevent infections during foreign travel. The pattern of drug resistance to these medications is constantly changing.
- In some parts of the world, P falciparum is resistant to all these drugs.
- The Centers for Disease Control maintains a Web page (Regional Malaria Information) that gives specific recommendations for every country.
- Use of mosquito nets and insect repellents can decrease the chance of getting infected.
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Malaria, which predominantly occurs in tropical areas, is a potentially life-threatening disease caused by infection with Plasmodium protozoa transmitted by an infective female Anopheles mosquito vector.
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