Source: Deutsche Welle
The area of Pailin in western Cambodia is well-known to health experts as a source of drug-resistant strains of malaria.
So there was major concern recently when studies showed that the malaria parasite in Pailin was showing tolerance to the usual combination drug therapy, known as ACT.
“It’s been scientifically proven that the parasites that are drug-resistant in Africa came from Cambodia,” explains Dr. Steven Bjorge, a malaria specialist who works for the World Health Organization in Phnom Penh. “That was with the chloroquine resistance. And so the fear is that again the drug-resistant parasite, for example from western Cambodia, will move to Africa, and Africa is a malaria problem many magnitudes worse than anything in southeast Asia.”
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