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Stakes Rise In Malaria Battle As Cracks Appear In Drug's Armor

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This 5-year-old boy was carried to a Thai malaria clinic by his mother from deep inside Myanmar. If the mother had waited even a day longer, doctors say, the child probably would have died. Malaria remains a huge problem in much of the world, but over the past decade the number of people getting sick and dying from the disease has gone down dramatically. Health workers attribute much of this progress to the widespread use of artemisinin-based drugs. The problem now is that resistance to these drugs is starting to develop in Southeast Asia. One place where this resistance was first found is along the border between Thailand and Myanmar, also known as Burma. At the small Whampa health clinic on the Thai side of the Moi River, Dr. Aun Pyae Phyo is treating a 5-year-old Burmese boy with severe malaria.

Concepts:

Malaria Mass drug administration Artemisinin Pharmacology Antibiotic resistance Antimalarial drug Death Burma

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Dr. Aun Pyae Phyo

Overall Sentiment: -0.0100807

Relevance: 0.284685

Sentiment	Quote
-0.132048	"If the parasite strain inside that kid turned out to be resistant," Dr. Aun Pyae Phyo says
-0.156657	"If the parasite strain inside that kid turned out to be resistant," Dr. Aun Pyae Phyo says shaking his head, "the scenario would turn out to be quite disastrous."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 2 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.288705 Mean: -0.1443525 Standard Deviation: 1.7320508075689

Francois Nosten

Overall Sentiment: 0.436267

Relevance: 0.17756

Sentiment	Quote
-0.0107409	Nosten says public health officials should use this moment, while artemisinins are still mostly effective, to launch an all-out "war" ...
0	"We are in a race," he says. ...
-0.237551	"We are in a race," he says. "Either we eliminate malaria, or if we don't, then we think the parasite will become more and more resistant, and we won't be able to use these drugs any more... And we'll have almost no drug to treat it."
Sentiment Stats:	Number of Quotes: 3 Aggregate Sentiment: -0.2482919 Mean: -0.082763966666667 Standard Deviation: 1.4142135623731

Ben de

Overall Sentiment: 0

Relevance: 0.146409

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HealthCondition: malaria

Overall Sentiment: -0.0993642

Relevance: 0.884543

Disambiguation: DiseaseOrMedicalCondition | CauseOfDeath | DiseaseCause | InfectiousDisease | RiskFactor | Disease | MedicalTreatment | OrganizationSectorReferences:

• Malaria: dbpedia
• Malaria: freebase
• Malaria: opencyc

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At health clinics along the Thai-Myanmar border, malaria is getting tougher to treat as resistance to medication grows. Doctors say it may be time to focus on eradicating malaria before the drugs lose potency.

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Stakes Rise In Malaria Battle As Cracks Appear In Drug's Armor

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Full Content: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/09/164712206/stakes-rise-in-malaria-battle-as-cracks-appear-in-drugs-armor?ft=1&f=1004

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