{"id":8934,"date":"2021-04-15T12:45:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=8934"},"modified":"2021-04-15T12:45:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T12:45:30","slug":"drug-resistant-malaria-gaining-foothold-in-africa-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/15\/drug-resistant-malaria-gaining-foothold-in-africa-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant malaria gaining foothold in Africa: study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article_content\">\n<div class=\"article_right\">Researchers on Thursday reported the first clinical evidence that drug-resistant mutations of the parasite responsible for malaria are gaining ground in Africa.<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"515693\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/Portals\/0\/attachment\/2021\/2021-04-15\/28328ec4-aa01-40d5-ac51-e4a22661a3e2.jpeg\" alt=\"A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of malaria vaccine in Kenya. Photo: VCG\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p class=\"picture\">A child is vaccinated against malaria on September 13, 2019 in Ndhiwa, Homabaya County, Western Kenya during the launch of malaria vaccine in Kenya. Photo: VCG<\/p>\n<p>Experts have long worried about the emergence of drug resistance across the continent, which accounted for more than 90 percent of malaria deaths worldwide in 2019. A new study published in The Lancet appears to confirm those fears.<\/p>\n<p>In clinical trials, the disease lingered longer in children receiving standard treatment for malaria if they were infected with mutant strains of the disease, the study found.<\/p>\n<p>The efficacy of Artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) remained high, but the researchers said there was an &#8220;urgent need&#8221; for more monitoring in Rwanda, where the study was conducted, as well as in neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>There are an estimated 229 million cases of malaria worldwide, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>The disease killed more than 400,000 people in 2019, more than two-thirds of them children. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which is carried by female mosquitos from any of several dozen species in the genus Anopheles. &#8220;Our study shows that resistant isolates are starting to become more common,&#8221; said lead author Aline Uwimana, a researcher at the Rwanda Biomedical Centre in Kigali.<\/p>\n<p>Introduced in the early 2000s, ACTs are the most effective and widely used treatments for malaria. 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