Malaria is a disease affecting 350 Million people world wide very year. Of the affected people only 1 Million die. This is because, powerful drug called Artemisinin was competent enough of dealing with malaria to a large extent. But Malaria is notorious of being resistant to drugs quickly. Unfortunately, it has become drug resistant for yet another time. This report is revealed by scientists on November 19 2009, at a meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. This article tries to gain further insight on this topic.
How Malaria has become Drug resistant this time: When bacteria attack our body, they should be killed completely. Artemisinin is a drug which is effective completely, only when it is combined with another drug and given to the patient. The added drug kills any left over bacteria which manage to serve the dose of Artemisinin. If this added drug is not given, the left over bacteria which survived the effect of Artemisinin pose severe threat in future. Malaria caused by these survivor bacteria cannot be controlled by the Artemisinin drug any more. The exact process by which these bacteria become drug resistant is not known yet.
According to Dr. Christopher King of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, people Asia and Africa are widely affected by this disease. But they do not follow the World Health Organization guidelines of combining Artemisinin drug with another auxiliary drug. Most of the time it is not possible to easily find a combination drug for Artemisinin. This further increases the seriousness of the problem.
How Malaria can be a Serious Threat like Swine Flu: Flu earlier was known to be a normal disease and ignored. It was not taken seriously because the medicines against this disease were considered competent enough in dealing with the disease completely. But over the time, the bacteria and virus responsible for this disease gave birth to new generation of organisms. They are now powerful enough than the available drug. Lack of vigilance and complacency has lead to state where scientists are finding it difficult to even trace the origin of these organisms now. That is why, it took considerable amount of time to discover the vaccine for Swine Flu.
Signs of Artemisinin in failing to control malaria were evident several years ago in the south Asian country of Cambodia. Lack of steadfastness shown by health authorities at that time has lead the disease spread in its new version to borders areas of Thailand, Vietnam, Burma and China too. But according to Robert Newman, director of the Global Malaria Programme at the World Health Organization in Geneva, “the signals are early and need further verification.”
Normally, Malaria is caused by a parasite called Plasmodium. It enters in to our body through the blood stream and attacks the liver. There it start multiplying quickly and affects the blood cells. Presently, Scientists need time to trace the origin of the new drug resistant parasite. Only then, they can work on discovering a new powerful drug. This process will take its own time to complete. If timely action is not taken on priority basis, another world epidemic is in the waiting to attack us like Swine Flu.
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