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"Shooting pains in my head were just one hint that my antimalarial medication couldn't stand up to the mosquitoes of Sierra Leone. The pains weren't bad at first, just faraway flashes like heat lightning. There were other signs, such as dizziness, but I thought I was just reacting to the stifling humidity. The muscle spasms in my right calf must be lack of exercise. I'd been in Freetown a month. After a 9-year civil war, the capital city of the West African country barely has electricity, much less Pilates. It does however have a malaria rate among the highest in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Dr. Magill is science director of the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Md., and Dr. Panosian is a professor of medicine and a physician at the University of California, Los Angeles, Medical Center.

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