Simian Malaria

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UNTIL RECENTLY, it was taken for granted by malariologists that parasites of nonhuman hosts of malaria transmissible to man would not be a problem in the eradication of malaria. This may still be true. The inadvertence was caused by: (1) lack of epidemiological data on such a possibility, and (2) the difficulty experienced by investigators who tried to transmit malaria from lower animals to man. In May, 1960,1two members of the staff of our laboratory in Memphis contracted a febrile illness which was diagnosed as malaria of thePlasmodium vivaxtype. After thorough investigation, the infection was regarded to be of simian origin because: (1) the people were involved in experimental studies of simian malaria, (2) they had carried out large-scale dissections of mosquitoes heavily infected with monkey malaria some 2 weeks before, and (3) neither of the workers had had any contact with human malaria during

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