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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This sounds very serious.
quick solution: stop all travel to and from those countries.
problem solved.
Indeed it does.
But DDT is evil...
There has been mefloquine and malarone-resistant malaria in the border regions of Thailand/Cambodia and Thailand/Burma for 45 years. Artemesin resistance was only a matter of time.
End the DDT ban if they are serious - but of course, they are not.
Bring back DDT. Lots of DDT.
Rachel Carson killed more people than Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin and Mao combined.
They won’t allow DDT. Mosquitoes are more important than humans.
and hurt our most beloved avian friends?
what a fiend! /s LOL
No that's some bad s#!T , you don't want to catch it !
It's like magic. It is why the USA is malaria free. We eliminated the disease then we forced the end of the use of DDT so that the rest of the world should continue to suffer with malaria. DDT has since been proved to be harmless to virtually everything but its target and still we suffer rom the ideology that DDT must remain verboten.
Rachel Carson never had a PhD.
Her specialty was fish.
She was a lesbian.
Biggest mass murderer in history.
people laugh at dog as it is boiled alive and screams in pain
people laugh at dog as it is boiled alive and screams in pain
Now. Now. Now.
The Silent Spring IS the biggest load of environmental crap ever published
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