Transfusion-Introduced Falciparum Malaria

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Abstract
MALARIA in the United States has been steadily increasing, from 119 cases in 1962 to 1355 in the first seven months of 1967.1 Most of these cases occur in personnel returning from Vietnam. Approximately 1,000,000 men have now served in a malaria-endemic area, and another 500,000 rotate from the zone annually. These young men represent a sizable portion of the potential blood-donor population.* The case presented below points out that a soldier, deemed asymptomatic and with no evidence of parasitic disease on routine laboratory examination, transmitted malaria to the recipient of a blood transfusion. However, the presence of malaria in . . .