The occurrence of malaria epidemics in Thailand was reviewed from the malaria surveillance report of the National Malaria Control Program. The literature review revealed that the four epidemic periods recorded during 1980-2000 almost always occurred in the provinces and districts located along international borders. Malaria epidemics are caused by various factors such as: extensive population m...

Infantile convulsions have long been an enigma and in spite of the progress of mediial science there emnains much that is still not clear. Ifants have convulsions more often than adults or olier children and for this fact various exlanations have been adduced. The doctrine of peripheral irritation whereby the immaturity of the infant's nervous system was held to result in convuions on the sligh...

The absolute necessity for rational therapy in the face of rampant drug resistance places increasing importance on the accuracy of malaria diagnosis. Giemsa microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) represent the two diagnostics most likely to have the largest impact on malaria control today. These two methods, each with characteristic strengths and limitations, together represent the best h...

Recent reports of the World Health Organization have shown that malaria as an indigenous disease has disappeared from Europe and from the U.S.A., from most of the U.S.S.R., from Israel, Lebanon, large parts of India, from Singapore, Hong-Kong, Taiwan, South Africa, Australia, Chile, most of Argentina and Venezuela, most of the islands of the Caribbean, and from Mauritius. Nevertheless, the whol...