Word: camoquin
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Falciparum malaria, untreated, is more likely to be fatal than other forms. But the blood parasites, which emerge from the tissues only once, can be knocked out with the old standby, quinine, or wartime atabrine, or postwar Paludrine, Camoquin and chloroquine. The same drugs have done a good job of suppressing the fever flare-ups of relapsing ("vivax") malaria, which occur when the parasites are in the blood...
...Indian doctors report great success in treating fever relapses with a single dose of inexpensive Camoquin; they have also found that later relapses are few, and spaced farther apart. U.S., British and Belgian researchers are hard at work testing yet another new drug, daraprim. A thousand times as powerful as quinine, it can be taken in tiny, tasteless doses, and newborn Negro babies in Africa show no ill effects. So far, varying results with daraprim reflect the protean nature of malaria itself...
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