Som Aun contracted malaria after moving to the Thma Baing district of Cambodia's Koh Kong province in 2002. Four years later, two of his children contracted the disease.
A recent letter published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases1 reported on the presence of a drug-resistant lineage (strain) of malaria parasites in south Viet Nam that is responsible for "alarming rates of failure" of dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine, a first-line antimalarial medicine. The lineage, first identified in Cambodia in 2008, has now become the dominant lineage in some parts of the region. This letter builds on data published earlier in the year.
India's first case of quadruple malaria - presence of four types of Plasmodium parasite in a single patient - has been detected in a 12-year-old tribal kid in the Bastar forest of Chhattisgarh.
When it rains in Emusala village, a person sick with a fever can find it hard to get to the nearest health center, which requires a trip along the slippery footpaths that lead to the nearest main road some 10km (6 miles) away, in the heart of Western Kenya's KakamegaCounty.
Adult male farmers in Malaysia are more than twice as likely to contractPlasmodium knowlesi malaria - an infection usually found only in monkeys - than other people in their communities, according to a new study published inTheLancet Planetary Health.
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