Researchers find diagnostic delays are common for US pediatric patients with malaria

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Source: CDC/Dr. Melvin

Researchers found that more than one in four pediatric patients treated for malaria in the United States had a delay in their initial diagnosis, increasing the risk of more severe infection.

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