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Recurrent Malaria

April 23, 2012 By Malaria Q&A Leave a Comment

QUESTION

can malaria represent itself after 50 years?

ANSWER

There are two types of malaria which can lay dormant for long periods of time, though I don’t personally know of more than a handful of cases where the relapse was a matter of decades after the initial infection. These two types are P. vivax and P. ovale, so if you know you were infected with one of these types a number of years ago, it is possible that you could experience a relapse many years later, though as mentioned above, it is rare for the time lapse to be as long as 50 years.

Filed Under: Malaria Q&A Tagged With: infection, Plasmodium Ovale, Plasmodium Vivax, relapse

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