Published Date: 2001-03-20 23:50:00
Subject: PRO/EDR> Malaria, highland - Kenya
Archive Number: 20010320.0557
MALARIA, HIGHLAND - KENYA
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See Also
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Malaria, chloroquine resistant - Kenya 19990719.1213
Malaria, chloroquine resistant - Kenya (04) 19990726.1264
1997
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Malaria - Uganda, Kenya 19970722.1530
Malaria - Uganda, Kenya (02) 19970724.1555
Date: Tue 20 Mar 2001
From: M. Cosgriff <mcosgriff@hotmail.com>
Source: Panafrican News Agency (Dakar) [edited
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200103170025.html>
Ministry Cautions Public on Highland Malaria
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Kenya's health ministry has issued an alert on a possible outbreak of
highland malaria in the country's southwestern highlands.
Public Health Minister, Sam Ongeri, on Friday cautioned that residents of
that area should take immediate preventive measures to avert a possible
outbreak. "We have trained the residents on malaria preventive measures and
they should be able to apply this to curb the malaria menace," the minister
was quoted by the East African Standard newspaper Saturday.
The residents were advised to buy mosquito nets and insecticides, while
stagnant water within residential areas should be drained to destroy
mosquito breeding grounds. Ongeri said the management and treatment of
highland malaria was too costly. A highland malaria patient, he explained,
would be admitted to hospital for 7 days, while treatment costs ran to as
much as 330 US dollars, which was prohibitive.
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[Malaria is endemic in Kenya. The term 'Highland malaria' refers to malaria
found in an area which usually does not have malaria due to the cooler
climate at higher altitudes. The above posting implies that highland
malaria should be more difficult to treat compared to malaria contracted in
other places, but this has no foundation in fact. An outbreak of a febrile
illness may have led to the suspicion of malaria, but the information from
the hospital is not reassuring. It would be interesting to see some malaria
blood slide positive rates. - Mod.EP
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