1995•BMJOpen access
Remember malaria, even after a year
C. Godden
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Abstract
EDITOR,--The guidelines for prophylaxis against malaria for travellers from Britain mention reports of vivax malaria resistant to chloroquine in Oceania and recommend vigilance for a year after the travellers have returned from malarious regions.1 I worked as a locum paediatrician in Papua New Guinea for three months, leaving there in January 1990 and arriving in England (via Australia, Indonesia, Thailand, Singapore, and Egypt) in May 1990.
I developed a …