Drug resistance triggers war to wipe out malaria in the Mekong region

22 April 2016
Science Magazine
Malaria / Public health
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit / Multiple Drug Resistant (MDR) / Tom Peto

No one knows exactly why resistance to malaria drugs always emerges first in this remote western province of Cambodia, nestled in the Cardamom Mountains. “The reasons are as much social as biological,” says malariologist Tom Peto, who is here in this dusty, unremarkable-looking town battling the latest threat to global malaria control: multiple drug–resistant (MDR) malaria. …

 Leslie Roberts
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/drug-resistance-triggers-war-wipe-out-malaria-mekong-region

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