Atovaquone/proguanil: the need for family protection.

Author(s): Kain KC

Affiliation(s): Center for Travel and Tropical Medicine, Toronto General Hospital and University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.

Publication date & source: 2003-05, J Travel Med., 10 Suppl 1:S8-12

Publication type: Review

An increasing number of families, including children and the elderly, are seeking more adventurous travel in exotic parts of the world. Holiday destinations now include once-remote regions such as subSaharan Africa and New Guinea. This increase in visits to tropical and subtropical regions, combined with widespread chloroquine-resistant malaria, now places millions of Western travelers at risk of infection annually. At least 30,000 travelers from industrialized countries are reported to contract malaria each year and approximately 1 in 100 travelers who acquire Plasmodium falciparum malaria will die.