Plasmodium vivax hides in the liver as dormant hypnozoites, and it is this sleeping form that wakes months later, causing relapse. But the medical explanation feels distant when the real hiding place is the fear in a mother's heart, the one that returns with every change of season. My son had malaria last year, and though the doctor explained this cycle, I measure the nine months not in textbooks but in the cost of medicines we saved for, and in watching the rain clouds gather now over my terrace garden, wondering if his fever will too.
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