Malaria Drug Tafenoquine May Treat Babesiosis Infections, Study Finds

HealthDay (6/5, Thompson) reports, “A malaria drug could help immune-compromised people who can’t shake off babesiosis, a tick-borne parasitic infection, a new study says.” The results indicate “tafenoquine helped cure four New England patients whose babesiosis infections weren’t knocked out by the usual standard of care, researchers reported recently in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.”