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Drug-resistant Malaria spreads along Thai-Myanmar border
Friday April 06, 2012 10:13:30 PM,
RIA Novosti
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Bangkok: A drug-resistant malaria strain, which health officials had hoped
to contain to a small area in southwest Asia, has spread
significantly along the Thai-Myanmar border, a joint study by US
and British doctors said Friday.
The strain, known as P. falciparum, is the most deadly form of the
mosquito-transmitted parasitic organism, and responsible for nine
out of 10 malaria deaths. It is found in tropical regions around
the world.
The study published in the British-based Lancet medical journal
raised fears that the strain may reach India and Africa.
Malaria deaths have declined worldwide by almost a third over the
past decade, thanks to artemisinin, a malaria treatment that was
developed in China. But a malaria strain resistant to artemisinin
surfaced on the Cambodia-Thailand border in 2006.
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