Malaria Reemergence in Northern Afghanistan

Abstract

Field investigations were conducted in Kundoz Province, an Afghan high-risk area, to determine factors responsible for the rapid reemergence of malaria in that country, where 3 million cases were estimated to have occurred during 2002. Results indicate the presence of nonrice-field–dependent Plasmodium falciparum and rice-field–associated P. vivax malaria.

Keywords

• Rice-field malaria
• outbreak
• Afghanistan
• Plasmodium falciparum
• Plasmodium vivax
• Anopheles pulcherrimus