TABLE 9. Sources for malaria prophylaxis, diagnosis, and treatment recommendations.
Type of information | Source | Availability | Telephone number, Internet address, or electronic mail address |
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Prophylaxis
|
CDC’s Traveler’s Health Internet site (includes online access to Health Information for International Travel) |
24 hours/day |
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel
|
Health Information for International Travel (The Yellow Book) |
Online or order from Oxford University Press, Inc., Order Fulfillment, 198 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016-4314 |
800-451-7556 or https://global.oup.com/academic/?cc=us&lang=en& |
|
CDC’s Malaria Branch Internet site with Malaria information and prophylaxis, by country (Red Pages) |
24 hours/day |
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/travelers/country_table/a.html
|
|
CDC Malaria Map application |
24 hours/day |
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/map/
|
|
Diagnosis |
CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria diagnostic Internet site (DPDx) |
24 hours/day |
https://www.cdc.gov/dpdx/
|
CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria diagnostic CD-ROM (DPDx) |
Order by electronic mail from CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria |
dpdx@cdc.gov
|
|
Treatment | CDC’s Malaria Branch |
9:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday–Friday |
770-488-7788 or toll-free 855-856-4713* |
CDC’s Malaria Branch | 5:00 p.m.–9:00 a.m. Eastern Time on weekdays and all day weekends and holidays | 770-488-7100* (This number is for CDC’s Emergency Operations Center. Ask for the person on call for the Malaria Branch.) https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/diagnosis_treatment/treatment.html |
* These numbers are intended for health care professionals only.