Congrès
Médecine Tropicale • 2001 • 61 • 1 • 67
Malaria continues to be a serious threat to deployed military forces in many tropical and subtropical areas
worldwide.
It is estimated that 2.
3 billion people in more than
100 countries or territories...
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Congrès
Médecine Tropicale • 2001 • 61 • 1 • 67
Malaria continues to be a serious threat to deployed military forces in many tropical and subtropical areas
worldwide.
It is estimated that 2.
3 billion people in more than
100 countries or territories (approximately41 % of the wo rld’s population) live in malarious areas.
The global incidence
of malaria is estimated at 300 to 500 million clinical cases
per year, with about 2 million deaths (1).
Military personnel
are at particularly high risk of acquiring malaria when
deployed to endemic areas.
In endemic areas, the native population may appear to be healthy; however, they may be carriersof or semi-immune to malaria that they have been exposed to repeatedly since birth.
The pathogen is kept at a low
level by the host immune system.
This smoldering infection
can be quickly passed to new, non-immune humans (US
Forces) by mosquitoes.
US Forces introduced into a tropical
area lack immunity to malaria, and if bitten
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