Abstract

Wellems and Miller1 wrote of two worlds of malaria: one, of the residents of rural tropical areas in which the disease is endemic, and the other, of travelers to those areas, who typically have greater resources. The distinction is sharp, valid, and important in considering the development of tools to combat the global burden of malaria. Drugs considered safe and effective in one world may not be so in the other.2 The majority of the hundreds of millions of people in whom malaria will develop over the next year will obtain and consume antimalarial medication without medical supervision. Although the . . .

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