Cerebral Malaria

Malaria is the most important parasitic disease of man. It infects approximately 5% of the world’s population and kills somewhere between one and two million people each year. Of the four species of malaria parasites that infect humans, only Plasmodium falciparum is lethal. Cerebral involvement causing coma in severe falciparum malaria is a characteristic but ominous development carrying a 15–20%…