Last summer, while preparing for a trip to a remote area of Honduras, I posted twice on anti-malarial treatments: 22 July 2011 and 23 July 2011. The post gnerated a number of comments, all of them received offline.
By the way, the diagram to the left is the chloroquine molecule.
So I was intrigued when today's New York Times had an article about artemisinin, a Chinese drug hailed as one of the great advances in fighting malaria. Fascinating story about the development of the drug and the intrigue surrounding it. Even Mao Zedong gets some credit.
Here is a 2006 WHO document on malaria treatment guidelines using artemisinin monotherapies.
One last thing - celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., and his legacy today. Remarkable man. And remember all the other civl rights crusaders who helped make our country better today than it was then.
"I look to a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character." ~ Martin Luther King, Jr., 28 August 1963
Hey Aquadoc,
Agreed, mefloquine can make you slightly crazy. But, artemisinin is used to treat malaria once you have it, not as a prophylaxis (for prevention). So you can't really compare the two.
How about Avaquone/proguanil? That seems to be pretty popular since it came out in 2000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atovaquone/proguanil
Posted by: Matt Heberger | Tuesday, 17 January 2012 at 08:45 AM