Malaria parasites that can shrug off the effects of artemisinin are now well-established in East Africa.
Millions of lives are at risk unless urgent and radical action is taken to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading in Africa, scientists warn.
The last time resistance to an antimalarial spread in Africa it led to a tripling in the number of children dying.in the journal Science.Parasites that could resist artemisinin evolved for the first time in Africa in Rwanda, and then separately in Uganda and Eritrea.Now, more than 10% of malaria cases are caused by resistant parasites in Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Uganda and Tanzania.
A similar story has happened before. The parasite became resistant to a previous drug - chloroquine - in East Africa in the 1970s, and resistance reached the west coast by the 1980s."I’m hoping this is not something we will see in Africa," Dr Dhorda told me.The authors have made a series of recommendations targeting both the parasite and the mosquitoes that spread the disease.
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