Preventive drugs protect children

From Miami, Fla., at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Giving children a course of antimalarial drugs during the rainy season in malaria zones prevents many from contracting the mosquito-borne disease, researchers report. Since there is no established malaria vaccine, this approach might provide a viable strategy for prevention, says Brian Greenwood, an internist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases.