ABC Radio Australia
World Malaria Day is a day to recognise the global effort to provide effective control of the disease. Malaria is one of the leading causes of death in the developing world, infecting more than 500 million people a year and killing more than a million. About two years ago a new strain of drug resistant malaria emegerd in Cambodia, sparking fears it could spread and lead to widespread health problems.
Presenter: Robert Carmichael
Speakers: Dr Duong Socheat, National Centre for Malaria Control; Dr Steven Bjorge, WHO malaria specialist
Listen: Windows MediaCARMICHAEL: In recent decades, the area around the town of Pailin in western Cambodia has been the source of several drug-resistant malaria strains.
Dr Steven Bjorge of the World Health Organisation's office in Phnom Penh explains that one malaria strain in Africa that is resistant to choloroquine which was for years the standard medical treatment has been proven to have originated in western Cambodia.
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