Posted on 09/23/2017 5:08:51 PM PDT by MtnClimber
The rapid spread of "super malaria" in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning. This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.
It emerged in Cambodia but has since spread through parts of Thailand, Laos and has arrived in southern Vietnam.
The team at the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok said there was a real danger of malaria becoming untreatable.
Prof Arjen Dondorp, the head of the unit, told the BBC News website: "We think it is a serious threat.
"It is alarming that this strain is spreading so quickly through the whole region and we fear it can spread further [and eventually] jump to Africa."
Failing treatments
In a letter, published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the researchers detail the "recent sinister development" that has seen resistance to the drug artemisinin emerge.
About 212 million people are infected with malaria each year. It is caused by a parasite that is spread by blood-sucking mosquitoes and is a major killer of children. The first choice treatment for malaria is artemisinin in combination with piperaquine.
But as artemisinin has become less effective, the parasite has now evolved to resist piperaquine too. There have now been "alarming rates of failure", the letter says.
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How about southeast Chicago? God forbid we use DDT.
Wretched Carson.
One of Nixon’s geniuses did it I think.
But, isn't that "races"??? :O
The ban on DDT is a leftist inspired thing.
DDT does not inflict the harm that that panicked twit Rachel Carson told it did.
DDT needs to be exonerated, brought back and used to kill mosquitoes and save human lives.
Right up there with Margaret Sanger.
We’ll now they care when they unleash the DDT again.
“Silent Spring” is a fraud.
They banned DDT because they discovered they were saving a MILLION lives a year in the third world, and they didn’t like the prospects of that level of population growth.
The only place DDT was a problem was here in the U.S. because of the widespread saturation spraying.
It was never an environmental or health problem in the third world.
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