New Drug-Resistant Malaria Detected

A new threat to global health may have been detected with the discovery of a drug resistant strain of malaria.

               

One of the researchers from Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Thailand said that the drug-resistant malaria was found at the Myanmar-India border, and now poses an enormous threat.
The ability of the malaria parasite to shut off the effects of Artemisinin has been spreading since it emerged in south east Asia.
Scientists describe the development as very alarming.
Deaths from malaria have nearly been halved since year 2000, and the infection now kill about 584 thousand people each year.
The malaria type has been detected in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, Myanmar, also known as Burma, but not in Africa.