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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated over 200 million cases of malaria and 660,000 deaths from malaria in 2010. Displaced people suffer additional exposures to malaria and have additional barriers to receiving appropriate care, increasing their risk of suffering and dying from malaria. Some refugees carry subclinical infection and may not present to a health care provider with signs and symptoms for 3 months or more after they arrive in the United States. While P. falciparum causes most malaria deaths, this chapter further explains the 4 main species of malaria, their geographic distribution, clinical presentations and treatments, including recommended prophylactic treatment of refugees. The pre-departure presumptive treatment for refugees is also reviewed. Although malaria is found throughout the tropics, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that only refugees from highly endemic areas in sub-Saharan Africa should receive prophylactic post arrival treatment.

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  1. Department of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, 14-100B Phillips Wangensteen Building MMC 913, 420 Delaware Street SE, Minneapolis, MN, 555455, USA

    Kristina Krohn M.D.

  2. Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St. S.E., MMC 250, Minneapolis, MN, 55042, USA

    William Stauffer M.D., M.S.P.H., C TropMed, F.A.S.T.M.H.

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Krohn, K., Stauffer, W. (2014). Malaria. In: Annamalai, A. (eds) Refugee Health Care. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-0271-2_8

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