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Sunday, May 31, 2009

Drug Resistant Malaria

The BBC reports on the appearance of drug resistant malaria in Cambodia, in which the most effective drug for clearing parasites took almost twice as long to work. Cambodia have apparently a practice of selling cheap drugs that are only partially contain effective elements in order to pass drug tests. This means that drug resistant strains have more chance of developing. Malaria control is also less strict. The worry is that if such a strain should spread uncontrolled from from Asia to Africa that millions would be at risk.

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