Drug-resistant malaria widespread in Southeast Asia: study

31 July 2014
Xinhuanet News
Health care policy and administration / Malaria / Priority health concerns / Public health / Social development
Democratic Republic of the Congo / Kenya / Myanmar / New England Journal of Medicine / Nigeria / Southeast Asia / Thailand / University of Oxford

Drug-resistant malaria is now widespread in Southeast Asia, seriously threatening global efforts to control malaria, a new study warned Wednesday. An analysis of blood samples from 1,241 malaria patients in 10 countries across Asia and Africa found resistance to the world’s most effective anti-malarial drug, artemisinin, is now firmly established in western and northern Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and eastern Myanmar. There are also signs of emerging resistance in central Myanmar, southern Laos and northeastern Cambodia, researchers reported in the U.S. journal New England Journal of Medicine. …

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