Artemisinin-Resistant Malaria Parasite Spreading

Health researchers have warned that Plasmodium parasites resistant to the frontline malaria drug artemisinin have spread westward from southeast Asia to just short of the Indian border, a gateway to Africa. A spread into India would pose a serious threat to the global control and eradication of malaria. Myanmar, which carries the region's highest burden of malaria infections, is considered the parasite's main route from southeast Asia to India and beyond. However, the research ...