Parasitic Diseases
CDC's Washington office Website is featuring CDC's Health Swimming program on its CDC at Work section. The story describes CDC's initiative to produce a national model pool code to ensure healthy swimming for all Americans. The story highlights ... [... more]
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How People Get Malaria (Transmission)
Malaria is a serious and sometimes fatal disease caused by a parasite that commonly infects a certain type of mosquito which feeds on humans. People who get malaria are typically very sick with high fevers, shaking chills, and flu-like illness. ... [... more]
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Clinical Diagnosis
Little girl with suspected malaria seen at the Moronacocha Health Center, in the outskirts of Iquitos, on the Peruvian Amazon. The clinical suspicion was confirmed when the blood smear (being taken here by a health worker) confirmed the presence ... [... more]
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Field Technique for Identifying Counterfeit Drugs
Counterfeit (fake) drugs are products deliberately made to resemble a brand name pharmaceutical. They may contain no active ingredients or contain ingredients inconsistent with the package description. Counterfeiters tend to focus on the more ... [... more]
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Information for The General Public
Information for the General Public / Report a Serious Drug Side Effect / Counterfeit and Substandard Drugs Recently, CDC has updated the standard CDC malaria diagnosis and treatment guidelines, which were published in an article in JAMA May 23rd ... [... more]
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Countries with Malaria Risk
About 800 U.S. travelers are diagnosed with malaria each year. Cautionary Tales About Travelers' Ordeals with Severe Malaria However, all travelers to countries with malaria risk may get this potentially deadly disease. Asia (including the Indian ... [... more]
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Glossary / CDC Malaria
A reduction in the number of circulating red blood cells or in the quantity of hemoglobin. A genus of mosquito, some species of which can transmit human malaria. Anthropophilic mosquitoes are mosquitoes that prefer to take blood meals on ... [... more]
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Malaria in the United States
Of the 1,337 malaria cases reported for 2002 in the United States, all but five were imported, i.e., acquired in malaria-endemic countries. Between 1957 and 2003, in the United States, 63 outbreaks of locally transmitted mosquito-borne malaria ... [... more]
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Diseases: Malaria: Prevention, Pregnant Women, Public Info
Information for the Public: Preventing Malaria in the Pregnant Woman Travelers' Health Home > Diseases: Malaria: Prevention, Pregnant Women, Public Info All travelers to areas with malaria transmission, including pregnant women, should protect ... [... more]
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Prevention in Children, Public Info / CDC Malaria
Missing or delaying doses may increase their risk of getting malaria. For the best protection against malaria, your child should continue taking their drug as recommended after leaving the malaria-risk area (4 weeks for mefloquine, doxycycline, ... [... more]
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