Thursday, December 31, 2009

When your savior kills you

The Associated Press is doing a series on the ever increasing resistance deadly viruses and bacteria are developing to drugs meant to treat them.

Part 2, Malaria:
This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless. This time, scientists have confirmed the first signs of resistance to the only affordable treatment left in the global medicine cabinet for malaria: Artemisinin.
AIDS in Africa.

Tuberculosis ... in America.

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