{"id":817,"date":"2017-10-06T15:36:13","date_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/?p=817"},"modified":"2017-10-06T15:36:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-06T15:36:54","slug":"alarm-as-super-malaria-spreads-in-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/eastasiaandoceaniablog\/2017\/10\/06\/alarm-as-super-malaria-spreads-in-south-east-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alarm as ‘super malaria’ spreads in South East Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By James Gallagher<\/span>Health and science reporter, BBC News website<\/span><\/div>\n
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The rapid spread of “super malaria” in South East Asia is an alarming global threat, scientists are warning.<\/p>\n
This dangerous form of the malaria parasite cannot be killed with the main anti-malaria drugs.<\/p>\n
It emerged in Cambodia but has since spread through parts of Thailand, Laos and has arrived in southern Vietnam.<\/p>\n
The team at the Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok said there was a real danger of malaria becoming untreatable.<\/p>\n
Prof Arjen Dondorp, the head of the malaria unit, told the BBC News website: “We think it is a serious threat.<\/p>\n
“It is alarming that this strain is spreading so quickly through the whole region and we fear it can spread further [and eventually] jump to Africa.”<\/p>\n