No fewer than 2, 000 people return home with the disease each year as African holiday resorts in malariaendemic areas like Kenya and Gambia grow in popularity.
In malariaendemic countries, this will show that not all fevers are caused by malaria (much less than half) and the appropriate treatment can be given for whatever may be causing the fever.
Many people living in malariaendemic areas suffer from malnutrition so researchers in Burkina Faso experimented with adding vitamin A and zinc supplements to the diets of children aged from six months to six years.
Our initial partner in the mid-1980s was the U.S. Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, which needed a malaria vaccine to protect troops who might be deployed to malaria-endemic regions.