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We thank Tomás Orduna for bringing to our attention some inaccuracies in the map illustrating the global distribution of malaria, which appeared in our review article on this disease.1 He is correct in pointing out that there is no risk of malaria in Uruguay and that only chloroquine-sensitive malaria is present in Paraguay.
As noted in the original figure caption, the map was intended as a visual aid only and was not meant to provide definitive recommendations regarding malaria risk and prophylaxis. Furthermore, malaria risk may vary within a given country, and hence not all travellers to that country will necessarily require malaria prophylaxis. Readers are therefore referred to additional travel medicine resources, such as Health Canada, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization (as suggested in the original figure caption and listed at the end of our article1), for current recommendations regarding country-specific malaria risks and recommended prophlyaxis.
Our Fig. 1 was published courtesy of Health Canada's Committee to Advise on Tropical Medicine and Travel (CATMAT),2 and the Committee has now been made aware of these errors.
Kathryn N. Suh Division of Infectious Diseases Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Ottawa, Ont. Kevin C. Kain Jay S. Keystone Centre for Travel and Tropical Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, Ont.
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Competing interests: None declared.