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<p>Turkana County in northwestern Kenya was thought to be too dry for the mosquitoes that harbor malaria-causing parasites. But that assumption may have been wrong, according to a new study by malaria researchers at the Duke Global Health Institute and Moi University in Kenya. The arrival of a new mosquito and a more pernicious species of parasite could reverse the progress East Africa has made in controlling malaria.</p>
In a randomized trial, Steve M Taylor and colleagues study the effects of 3 malaria chemoprevention regimens on clinical malaria incidence, P. falciparum infection, and dactylitis among children with sickle cell anemia in Kenya.