RE: Going Local with Malarial Treatment
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Drug Resistance and Malaria
Just like what is being witnessed by every other pathogenic organisms, the malaria-causing pathogens have also found a way to develop resistance to various types of malaria drugs that exist in the market. Resistance could be either by outright mutation to drugs or through natural selection as spelled out by Darwin in his book, origin of species.
It is generally believed that drugs do not kill 100% of the malaria parasite in the blood of infected patients. The drugs only reduce the parasite's load to a level whereby the symptoms of malaria no longer manifest in the infected patients. The host's immune system then takes over and then we can say bye to malaria
Malaria is a deadly ailment which kills tens of thousands of people every year but many people do not pay attention to it,they only focus on other ailments which they assume to be the more deadly,only did they know that malaria can be even more deadly than those other ailment which they give more attention to..
You are right. Malaria kills many people annually but little attention is paid to it because it hardly affects developed countries.