Tuesday, August 12, 2014

If malaria drugs were ineffective

    Of drug-resistant malaria in Southeast Asia is expanding rapidly and has now reached the Cambodia-Thailand border.
Scientists say that drug-resistant malaria to prevent the "tough measures" need to take.
            Scientists' New England Journal of Medicine "reported that the incidence of malaria and malaria control efforts is deeply shocked.
Research linked to resistance
In a study of 10 countries of Asia and Africa 1,000 malaria patients' blood samples were tested.
            It was found that the western and northern Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and Myanmar in the east the most effective drug for malaria parasites have developed resistance against Artimijhinins.
             Although the three countries in Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Congo did not find evidence of resistant malaria.
Prevention is important
            Nicholas White, professor of Oxford University, said, "The effect of resistant malaria in most parts of South East Asia. Used as much as we expect, it's worse than that. Has to do something in this direction, then we must act quickly." "
            He said, 'forward to a great extent it is possible to stop the spread, but traditional methods of malaria control will not be enough.

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