Describing treatments, drugs, or measures designed to prevent or treat malaria infection.
From 'anti-' + 'malaria' (from Italian 'mal aria', bad air, the medieval misunderstanding of malaria's cause). The modern prefix reflects accurate understanding despite the outdated etymology in the disease name.
It's linguistically delicious that we still use 'malaria' (bad air) when we now know it's actually mosquito-borne parasites—but 'antimalaria' compounds don't say 'bad air treatment,' they simply mean 'malaria treatment,' showing how words evolve past their origins.
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