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Claire Panosian Dunavan, MD
Los Angeles, Calif
cpanosian@mednet.ucla.edu

JAMA. 2005;293:1430-1431.

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All day, the mother worried. The night before, Jahi felt hot. In the morning he refused to eat and cried like a bird. Now he was sleepy . . . too sleepy. Should she put him in a sling and set off for the government clinic? Ah, but remember last month? After walking and waiting for most of a day, she discovered the clinic had no malaria medicine. Maybe next week, the nurse had said, shrugging her shoulders. Why don’t you try the drug seller? Instead, the woman trudged home under an inky sky with the boy on her back.

In the meantime, the boy’s grandmother gathered plants and boiled them in a pot. When mother and child returned to the village, the old woman sat the boy in her lap and coaxed him into swallowing spoonful after spoonful of the pale, bitter brew.

The next morning, sure enough, Jahi . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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