Two Drugs Reduced Malaria in Children
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Intermittent treatment of children with the drugs artesunate and sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine sharply reduced malaria frequency in a study in Senegal.
One dose of the drugs or a placebo was given to children under the age of 5 three times during malaria season. A team from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine reported in the journal the Lancet that those receiving the drug had 86% fewer episodes of the disease.
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