Drug Resistant Malaria in West Myanmar
Concern is rising in western Myanmar over the possibility that malaria has mutated and is now immune to the antimalarial drug artemisinin, the frontline treatment against the disease.
In an article carried in the medical journal Lanset’s Infectuous Disease reports, the bigger concern is that the drug-resistent form of the disease is now 25 km from the In…
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