One of the biggest challenges in fighting malaria, which kills more than one million people each year, is drug resistance. In Cambodia, health officials are seeing new evidence of resistance as they try to treat the most deadly kind of malaria.
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July 16, 2009
Cambodia fears growing resistance to malaria drugs
July 16, 2009
Scientists debate reasons for global spread of malaria
Michael Novacek of the American Museum of Natural History discusses fears that deforestation and global warming are contributing to the spread of malaria, and explains what scientists are doing to fight the disease.





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