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A company plans to send a large number of employees to work in Afghanistan,
for variable periods of time. Their employees’ health service
inquires about potential need for malaria prevention.
Question
1: Will there be a malaria risk in Afghanistan? And if yes, where and
when?
Question
2: For a 34-year-old male employee, with no known medical problems,
which of the following drugs would constitute appropriate chemoprophylaxis?
(More than one answer might be correct.)
Question
3: Which one of these drugs would be appropriate for a 30-year-old woman,
at her 20th week of pregnancy, traveling to Afghanistan?
Question
4: Which of these drugs would be appropriate for a 64-year-old man traveling
to Afghanistan, who has a history of cardiac conduction abnormalities, but
no other medical problems? (More than one answer might be correct.)
Main
points:
- Recommendations about chemoprophylaxis should take into account:
- transmission patterns (areas of risk, time of year)
- Plasmodium species being transmitted
- patterns of drug resistance
- travelers' personal and medical characteristics
- duration and intensity of exposure
Page last modified : April 23, 2004
Content source: Division of Parasitic Diseases
National Center for Zoonotic, Vector-Borne, and Enteric Diseases (ZVED)
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