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professional advice and should not be used in lieu of obtaining advice from a qualified health care

provider. And now, on to the show. Welcome to Helix Talk episode 28. I'm your co-host,

actor King. I'm Dr. Schumann. And I'm Dr. Patel. And today we're covering a topic that is near and dear to, at least Dr. Schumann's heart,

with a recent travel experience.

And that's going to be malaria prophylaxis.

Yeah, and with the interest of time,

I remember we were talking about prophylaxis

and not really a treatment.

So all the medication and the doses we're going to mention for

prophylaxis purpose. Yeah, and to give you some concept of why malaria prophylaxis is so

important, a recent article in The Lancet mentioned that there were 216 million with an M cases of

malaria in the past year. And of those those there were 655,000 deaths.

And that's worldwide. Most of those are in sub-Saharan Africa, but for people who travel from the US to other countries where malaria is more prevalent,

it's something that we have to worry about. In the past year, based on what the CDC is reported, there's about 1,500 cases of people

in the U.S. who have malaria or who acquired malaria. It's almost always due to travel outside

of the U.S.

Yeah, and I think that is a very important point to be made here. That this is a travel-related

disease. A lot of the time when you travel in the indigenous area where malaria is very prevalent,

you come back.

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