Tuesday 31 January 2017

Malaria drugs fail for first time on patients in UK


The treatment for the malaria parasite has failed for the first time in patients being treated in the UK, doctors say.
Reports claim that the drug combination was unable to cure four patients, who had all visited Africa.
However, team at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was too early to panic but warned things could suddenly get worse and demanded an urgent appraisal of drug-resistance levels in Africa.

Malaria parasites has been a major killer of the under-fives with one child dying from the disease every two minutes.

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