Patients will be rapidly screened for temperature and sent to the laboratory to determine the presence or absence of malaria parasites. The patients will then be examined clinically for inclusion or exclusion. Consent will be sort from the parents and the children randomised and assigned study numbers. To avoid bias in assigning the patients to groups and to ensure equal numbers in the treatment groups, blocked randomization will be performed, using a table of random variables of varying block sizes. The physician is blinded to what treatment the patient gets.