artemisinin-based combination therapy is "now taking two to three times longer to kill malaria parasites along the Thai-Cambodian border than elsewhere."As with three previous -- and particularly odious -- strains of malaria, the epicenter seems to be "the remote province of Pailin, a former stronghold of ultra-communist Khmer Rogue rebels and once renown for blood-red rubies and lush forests."
This new strain of drug resistant malaria is also afflicting residents of Northwestern Thailand, and there are fears that it could spread globally.
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