TY - JOUR
AU - Kaye, Donald
AB - 15 MARCH Donald Kaye, Section Editor News But because infected mosquitoes— Chinese Scientists Take of the H5N1 virus that has shown mod- which have a 30-day life span—may still Malaria Fight to Africa erate resistance to the frontline antiviral be lurking and transmit the disease, a sec- Tamiflu, the World Health Organization 18 January 2007 (Reuters Health [Tan Ee ond round of mass drug intake will be (WHO) said. Lyn])—A drug program that slashed ma- carried out 40 days later. Known as “294S,” the mutated strain laria infections in parts of Cambodia is “That would bring the (malaria para- was first detected in 2005 in a teenage girl being extended to an African island, with site) carrier rate down by at least 99%,” in Vietnam who survived, but this is the Chinese scientists aiming to simulta- Li said. first evidence of it spreading beyond Asia, neously treat all 40,000 residents. The plan also involves everyone taking it said. Although malaria-infected mosquitoes primaquine every 10 days for the first 6 The United Nations agency said that the pass the parasite from person to person, months. latest cases did not change its recommen- the scientists say the real source of the 
TI - 15 March News
JF - Clinical Infectious Diseases
DO - 10.1086/513293
DA - 2007-03-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/15-march-news-m2IN7kQr3A
SP - iii
EP - iv
VL - 44
IS - 6
DP - DeepDyve
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