12-yr-old in Chhattisgarh diagnosed with all 4 malaria types

A 12-year-old Chhattisgarh boy was diagnosed with quadruple malaria, wherein all four malaria-causing species are found in a single blood sample, making it the first such reported case from India. Of the four species, P. falciparum was the dominant one, which has been found in 70% of the 4.86 lakh malaria cases reported till July this year, doctors said.