Four patients had to readmitted
BBC News reports that a key drug treatment for malaria has failed to treat four patients in the UK.
The treatment involved using a combination of two drugs: artemether-lumefantrine on four patients in the UK that had recently returned from Africa. According to BBC, the treatment initially worked and the patients were sent home. However, after a month later, the malarial symptoms returned and the patients had to be readmitted.
Although the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine said it was too early to panic, they did demand an urgent appraisal of drug resistance levels in Africa.
Dr Colin Sutherland told the BBC News website: “It’s remarkable there’s been four apparent failures of treatment, there’s not been any other published account [in the UK].”
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Malaria is a disease most predominant in tropical countries with Africa being the most affected. Malarial parasites usually spread through bites from the female anopheles mosquito.
According to the CDC, in 2012 alone malaria “caused an estimated 207 million clinical episodes, and 627,000 deaths. An estimated 91% of deaths in 2010 were in the African Region.”
The four patients were eventually treated with other therapies.
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