GLOBAL MALARIA ROUND-UP
September 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALLA WORLD Health Organisation (WHO) report has called for public health teams in malarial zones to ensure new anti-malarial drugs are used in combination with other medicines, to weaken the ability of the disease's parasite to become immune. It says drugs derived from the plant Artemisia annua must be used "with a second drug, and not alone. Otherwise, the medicines could lose their potency over time" as has "has already happened with other antimalarial drugs in the past". It has also welcomed the development of combination drugs linking artemisinin ...
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