Malaria in Montagnard refugees--North Carolina, 1992.
Refugee groups emigrating from some areas of the world may have increased prevalences of exotic and potentially life-threatening diseases, challenging the diagnostic and case-management capacities of local and state health departments. This report summarizes efforts by public health officials and clinical health-care providers to diagnose and manage cases of malaria among a group of 402 Montagnard refugees who resettled to three counties in North Carolina in November 1992.
D002160:Cambodia / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008288:Malaria / Q000208:ethnology*; D009657:North Carolina / Q000453:epidemiology; D012036:Refugees; D014744:Vietnam / Q000208:ethnology