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Drug thwarted by malaria resistance apparently working again
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) _ For years, the drug chloroquine was among the most effective ways to treat malaria. But it lost its punch because of germ resistance.
Now it appears that chloroquine has made a medical comeback.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical School say genetic shifts in malaria appear to be making it more vulnerable again to chloroquine.
Researchers treated more than 100 malaria-infected children in central Malawi, and report a 99 percent cure rate. But other African countries are being urged to stop using the drug until similar results are realized.
Malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, killing nearly one (m) million children a year.
The results of the Maryland research are reported in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.
Drug thwarted by malaria resistance apparently working again
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) _ For years, the drug chloroquine was among the most effective ways to treat malaria. But it lost its punch because of germ resistance.
Now it appears that chloroquine has made a medical comeback.
Researchers at the University of Maryland Medical School say genetic shifts in malaria appear to be making it more vulnerable again to chloroquine.
Researchers treated more than 100 malaria-infected children in central Malawi, and report a 99 percent cure rate. But other African countries are being urged to stop using the drug until similar results are realized.
Malaria remains one of the world's deadliest diseases, killing nearly one (m) million children a year.
The results of the Maryland research are reported in this week's issue of The New England Journal of Medicine.