Study in Myanmar confirms artemisinin-resistant malaria close to border with India
Sunday, February 22, 2015 - 12:00
in Health & Medicine
Resistance to the antimalarial drug artemisinin is established in Myanmar and has reached within 25km of the Indian border, a new study reports. Artemisinin resistance threatens to follow the same historical trajectory from Southeast Asia to the Indian subcontinent as seen in the past with other antimalarial medicines.