malaria prophylaxis for travellers to the Dominican Republic
January 2005
The Public Health Agency of Canada is now recommending malaria prophylaxis for travellers to the Dominican Republic.
Malaria is already a concern in rural parts of the Dominican Republic...but now cases include tourists from RESORT areas.
No drug resistance has been reported...so chloroquine is the drug of choice.
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