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Chloroquine resistance

Recommended prophylaxis*

China

If traveling from an infected area (see the Blue Sheet).

None

Travelers to cities and popular tourist areas, including Yangtze River cruises, are not at risk and do not need chemoprophylaxis. Rural areas only of the following provinces: Hainan, Yunnan, Fuijan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Tibet (Xizang) (in the Zangbo River valley only), Anhui, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, Jiangxi, Shandong, Shanghai, and Zhejiang. In provinces with risk, transmission occurs only during warm weather: north of latitude 33° N, July-November; between latitude 25° N and 33° N, May-December; south of latitude 25° N, transmission occurs year-round.

Confirmed in the provinces of Hainin and Yunnan. Other provinces do not have chloroquine-resistant malaria.

MEF, DOX, or A/P in Hainan and Yunnan; CHL in all other areas.


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