Malaria — Recent Progress and Problems

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Abstract
VARIOUS circumstances dictate the need for current review and reassessment of malaria. Until recently, the disease occupied the back shelf of domestic medical interests although remaining an important problem internationally. Whereas malaria is most dramatic currently in the context of military operations in Southeast Asia, it is the emergence of drug-resistant strains of malaria parasites that highlights the subject today. This resistance of certain plasmodia to modern drugs was noted before the expansion of hostilities in Vietnam, but the malaria problem has become magnified and more complicated as a result of the war. Quite apart from the military implications, however, . . .