[afro-nets] Malaria shows signs of resisting best drug used to fight it

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Malaria shows signs of resisting best drug used to fight it

The frontline malaria medicine artemisinin shows gaps in effectiveness in Southeast Asia
By <http://www.sciencenews.org/view/authored/id/57/name/Nathan_Seppa&gt;Nathan Seppa
Web edition : Thursday, November 19th, 2009

WASHINGTON ­ Malaria that is resistant to the best available drug is more widespread in Southeast Asia than previously reported, new research shows. The worrisome finding poses a risk that travelers could carry this strain of the malaria parasite to other parts of the globe and unwittingly spread it, scientists reported November 19 at a meeting of the <http://www.astmh.org>American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene....

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I have very serious yet to be verified worries about the future of ACTs. The challenge of compliance may in the very near future wipe out the celebrated gains in the use of ACTs for the treatment of malaria. I am just hoping that the malaria vaccine would come on course before the easily predictable fast approaching era of resistance to ACTs especially in the poor nations of the world. This is an alert with no concrete evidence.

Wilson O. Erhun. B.Pharm.,MBA; M.Sc;Ph.D; FPCPharm
Professor & Head
Department of Clinical Pharmacy and Pharmacy Administration
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
mailto:mercyerhun@yahoo.co.uk