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Drug-Resistant Malaria May Pose Major Threat
According to Newsweek, "A strain of drug-resistant malaria that was discovered last summer along the Thailand-Cambodia border has been been spreading throughout Southeast Asia, to Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia and Myanmar." Specifically, the samples are resistant to anti-malarial artemisinin.
The study analyzed more than 900 blood samples from malaria patients at over 55 different sites in Myanmar. The results showed that the drug-resistant bug was widespread, and dangerously close to the Indian border in the country’s Sagaing region. "Our study shows that artemisinin resistance extends over more of southeast Asia than had previously been known, and is now present close to the border with India,” wrote the researchers in the study abstract.
Are the mosquitoes DDT-resistant?
"I don't know, therefore Aliens" Wafflebox1
that there are just too many people. The Earth is a self-correcting system.
I recall reading that the reason for the drug resistance was the over-use of sub-therapeutic levels of artemisinin in the area.
And for that reason, the resistance is limited to those regions where they use sub-therapeutic levels.
Right?
You do realize that you are completely wrong?
Vaccines are not only for viruses - the very common vaccine Di-Per-Te is a nice sample - it is for three different bacterias.
Protozoal vaccines are also in use eg. Nobivac Piro.
Vaccines can be made for every infective agent that represents antibodies - or it's antibodies are represented on cells that are infected by this agent.
In one aspect you are right: currently there is no vaccine for Malaria.
You totally have it figured out. If there's one thing a farmer wants to do it is waste money on useless shots. They've got all the money in the world so just waste it to make drug companies rich!