By Robert Carmichael
DPA
Phnom Penh - Next week, teams of health workers will head to 10 of Cambodia's most malaria-infected villages near the western town of Pailin, in a region notorious for its mystifying ability to produce resistant strains of the disease.
The purpose of their visit is unique in the country's programme to combat malaria.
Health workers will take blood samples from every villager, lab test for the falciparum malaria parasite, and then provide treatment within days to anyone with the parasite whether or not they are showing malaria symptoms.
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