When drugs stop working, malaria fights back



Malaria worker Phoun Sokha, 47, shows his malaria medicine kit at O'treng village on the outskirts of Pailin, Cambodia, in August 2009. This spot on the Thai-Cambodian border is home to a form of malaria that keeps rendering one powerful drug after another useless.Malaria is one of the leading killer infectious diseases battling back in a new and more deadly form. Drug resistance to malaria has spread faster and wider than previously documented, according to a six-month Associated Press investigation.

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