Plasmodium falciparum

First Drug-Resistant Malaria Parasite Detected In Africa

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For the first time in Africa, researchers said Wednesday they have detected a malaria parasite that is partially resistant to the top anti-malaria drug, artemisinin, raising concern about efforts to fight a disease that sickens hundreds of millions of people each year. The discovery means that Africa now joins southeast Asia in hosting such drug-resistant … Read more

New Concern Over Malaria Treatment

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Doctors have raised fresh concerns that drug-resistant forms of malaria may be emerging across Africa. A key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in Britain to cure four patients who had become infected after travelling to Uganda, Angola and Liberia. They initially responded well to an anti-malarial therapy (artemether-lumefantrine) but relapsed a month … Read more