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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1962Vol. XXXII, No. 10

Warning on Malaria

p. 119 · Read in the full issue

Malaria

The official British "News ier” issued by the British 'sidency in the New Hebrides aws attention to a letter in ? British medical journal "The meet” The letter stressed the cessity for people to take ophylactic drugs for one com ?te month after leaving mala d areas of the tropics. The r iter had seen 60 cases of alignant malaria in England, ur of which resulted in death. each case the patient had opped taking suppressives on rival in England. The "News tter” warned New Hebrides sidents departing from the ter nary on leave to inform their ictors they had been in a mo rtal area should they develop fever.