The only treatment available is to keep the patient hydrated – as would be the case with any fever.
Malaria is so common in sub-Saharan Africa that families think any fever in a baby must be the killer disease.
Fever can indeed be scary, and any fever in an infant younger than 3 months is cause for major concern because of the risk of serious bacterial infections.
If some magic wand were to wave the Royal across the Atlantic this year, it's unlikely it would generate any fever.
Any fever might turn out to be this most horrible and rapid of diseases, early signs of which are easily missed by medics (let alone by unqualified NHS 111toilet telephone operators).
But because malaria was far less common among the participants who received the combination therapy, Dr. Gasasira said, doctors now assume that any fever in a young child must be investigated for a cause other than malaria.
Another occasion when paracetamol is often routinely administered is around the time of vaccination, to reduce the amount of pain and swelling at an injection site, and also lessen any fever brought on by the injection.
John Marburger, the new director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, said he wanted to "cool any fever" that the course of discovery would be interrupted and the quality of intellectual life distorted and impaired, or that science was to be diverted in a massive way as it was in the second world war.
She did not report any fever, weight loss, or malaise.
He denied any fever, cough or breathing difficulties.
