Global & Disaster Medicine

Serious and fatal bouts of malaria in the United States are a greater problem than has been previously reported

NY Times

The study was published Monday by The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

The authors counted 22,000 patients hospitalized for malaria, about five times as many as were hospitalized, for example, for dengue fever….. Nearly 5,000 of them had serious complications like kidney failure or coma, and 182 died.

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