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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