Seasonal malaria chemoprevention in Senegalese children lowers overall malaria burden

(PLOS) Giving preventive antimalarial drugs to children up to age 10 during active malaria season reduced the cases of malaria in that age group and lowered the malaria incidence in adults, according to a randomized trial carried out in Senegal and published in PLOS Medicine by researchers from the Universit é Cheikh Anta Diop, Senegal, the London School of Hygiene& Tropical Medicine, UK, and other collaborators.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news