First artemisinin based malaria drug may meet resistance, expert says
Posted on January 13, 2009
This year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve the first malaria drug to contain artemisinin, a wormwood derivative from China that has proven effective for malaria in Africa and Asia.
Although there are only about 1,500 reported cases of malaria treated in this country each year, this approval would also make the drug available to the military and to Americans planning to go abroad. However, worldwide malaria is still one of the most serious infectious diseases, affecting 2 to 3 billion people, with up to two million deaths annually.
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