Next to Africa, Asia is the second region to have been mutilated by drug-resistant malaria, warn experts. Resistance to the drug used everywhere to cure the life-threatening disease has emerged in Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, said Richard Feachem, director of global health at the University of California, San Francisco. "In the Mekong Basin there is a growing and spreading problem of resistance... to the drug artemisinin which is the frontline ...Wednesday 31 October 2012
Drug-resistant Malaria Spreading in Asia
Next to Africa, Asia is the second region to have been mutilated by drug-resistant malaria, warn experts. Resistance to the drug used everywhere to cure the life-threatening disease has emerged in Cambodia, Thailand and Myanmar, said Richard Feachem, director of global health at the University of California, San Francisco. "In the Mekong Basin there is a growing and spreading problem of resistance... to the drug artemisinin which is the frontline ...
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