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Malaria Parasite Becoming Resistant to Most-Effective Medicine
By: questionboy89
Posted: Mar 8 09
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Issues: Health
Tags: access to medical treatment, disease, Malaria, news and politics
Recently, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the emergence of parasites, along the Thai-Cambodia border, that are resistant to the medicine artemisinin and could seriously undermine global malaria control. The recent shift from drugs that were failing to the highly effective artemisinin-based combination therapies allowed great progress in fighting malaria, one of the world's major killers.
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