QUESTION: If you had malaria once, can it return for a second time without being in a malaria area? ANSWER: Yes. There are several ways in which malaria can come back without being re-infected again. The blood forms of the parasites can sometimes persist at low numbers, so that the patient no longer has any symptoms; if these blood forms begin to reproduce again, the patient will once … [Read more...]
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