Hunga Ram Kashyap hasn’t heard of any such “first”. A month after the small, one-room malaria clinic opened, Hunga, then 12, hobbled up to it, helped by a boy one year his senior. We immediately started the boy on medicines for the two strands of malaria that we detected and kept him at the Darbha clinic, which has a few beds. “There are four malaria strands in total — falciparum, vivax, malaria and ovarie. Does he know he is the first case in the country of four different strands of malaria in his bloodstream?

Source: Indian Express October 24, 2017 23:39 UTC