Thanks for posting Moses1968, This resistance to artemisinin is...

Thanks for posting Moses1968,

This resistance to artemisinin is very real as per extract below from Moses' link.

The irony I suspect is that if Artimist were available as a frontline medicine that allowed a patient to stave off the debilitating effects of the Plasmodium parasite long enough to reach medical care for combination therapy - then the seat of malaria resistance in western cambodia may be able to be controlled.

"Over the last century, almost every frontline antimalarial drug -- chloroquine, sulfadoxine, pyrimethamine -- has become obsolete because of defiant parasites that emerged from western Cambodia. From this cradle of resistance, the parasites gradually spread west to Africa, causing the deaths of millions. Malaria already kills around 660,000 people every year, and most of them are African kids.

If artemisinin resistance reached that continent, it would be catastrophic, especially since there are no good replacement drugs on the immediate horizon."

bluebush