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MUST CLICKS: NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE - RESISTANT MALARIA NEAR THAI BORDER
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Researchers from the New England Journal of Medicine confirmed that it takes longer to clear the parasites in the blood of Cambodian patients. According to the report Malaria parasites first began showing resistance in January, when they studied 40 patients in both western Cambodia and North-Western Thailand. At first glance this might not be that troubling, but the drugs that treat this form of Malaria are vital and no other drugs are available to treat such a case. If this form of treatment is lost it will have a devastating effect on Malaria control and the entire world.
"While it took around 48 hours for the parasites to be cleared from Thai patients, clearance took 84 hours in the Cambodian patients," says Kamolrat Silamut, a researcher at the Faculty of Medicine in Thailand.