Malaria
Publications and Materials

Below are selected publications and materials related to malaria. Please note the year of publication may be later than the year(s) the data represent.

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Pregnancy, Travel, and Malaria: A Cautionary Tale (10/30/05)
http://www.cdc.gov/Malaria/features/malaria_travel_pregnancy.htm
All travelers to malaria-risk areas should take precautions against this dangerous mosquito-borne disease. Pregnant women who are at especially high risk should avoid traveling to malaria-risk areas if at all possible. If a pregnant woman must travel to a malaria-risk area, she should make sure to take all necessary precautions (including antimalaria pills) against malaria.

Congenital Malaria- Nassau County, New York, 2004 (5/30/05)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5415a3.htm
PDF (p. 383)
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5415.pdf
This report describes the first documented case of congenital malaria acquired in Nassau County, New York, which is the fifth case of congenital malaria reported in the United States since 2000. Health-care providers should consider malaria as a diagnosis in neonates and young infants, particularly those with fever, whose mothers emigrated from areas where malaria is endemic.

Malaria during Pregnancy (9/30/04)
http://www.cdc.gov/malaria/pregnancy.htm
Pregnant women are particularly vulnerable to malaria. In areas where malaria is common, health ministries now strive to make malaria prevention part of normal antenatal care. Infection with P. falciparum during pregnancy increases the mother’s risk of developing severe disease and anemia, and increases the risk of stillbirth and prematurity.

Maternal Malaria and Perinatal HIV Transmission, Western Kenya (3/30/04)
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol10no4/03-0303.htm
This evaluation of perinatal HIV transmission in a malarious area of western Kenya demonstrated that approximately 20% of infants born to HIV-infected mothers acquired HIV by 4 months of age, similar to rates reported in other sub-Saharan African settings. Consistent with other studies, maternal viral load in peripheral blood at the time of delivery and having an episiotomy or perineal tear were risk factors for perinatal mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT). Women with placental malaria had lower rates of perinatal MTCT than women without placental malaria. However, women with high-density malaria had significantly higher rates of perinatal MTCT than parasitemic women with low-density malaria. Malaria during pregnancy is a serious problem in sub-Saharan Africa, affecting an estimated 24 million pregnant women; malaria prevalence may exceed 50% among primigravid and secundigravid women in malaria-endemic areas.

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