1) TO answer this I’m just saying that an artemisin derivative plus another medication (co-artem) will still cure malaria completely almost all of the time, even if it takes longer
I don’t have the answer to 2 or 3 exactly and dont’ have the time to look into it but you’re thnking along the right lines. For every 1,000 children who came into a clinic for malaria, at least 950 would survive with no treatment, but even those that survive are likely to encounter a range of problems such as anemia, low energy, recurrent fevers etc. Also like you say people would be more prone to dying from other diseases as well after being weakened from malaria, as is well established in the case of diarrheal disease. Malaria actually weakens immunity directly as well. If I recall correctly somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 severe malaria cases has co-infection with a bacterial infection.
Thanks Scott interesting questions
1) TO answer this I’m just saying that an artemisin derivative plus another medication (co-artem) will still cure malaria completely almost all of the time, even if it takes longer
I don’t have the answer to 2 or 3 exactly and dont’ have the time to look into it but you’re thnking along the right lines. For every 1,000 children who came into a clinic for malaria, at least 950 would survive with no treatment, but even those that survive are likely to encounter a range of problems such as anemia, low energy, recurrent fevers etc. Also like you say people would be more prone to dying from other diseases as well after being weakened from malaria, as is well established in the case of diarrheal disease. Malaria actually weakens immunity directly as well. If I recall correctly somewhere between 1 in 10 and 1 in 20 severe malaria cases has co-infection with a bacterial infection.