Here is a remarkable new paper on artemisinin resistance.

https://t.co/SbvFcLSnZ6

It makes me smile to think "rallying behind a common narrative" ... is "a prerequisite" for malaria eradication in the Mekong. There are big egos involved.

Authors of his paper don't even consider that malaria artemesinin resistance will develop de novo in countries of Africa. This later may be proven to be a big mistake.

Despite $175 m a year spent, malaria artemisinin resistance "is spreading over an ever widening geographical area."

Insecticide treated bednets or ITNs have only an "estimated maximum efficacy of around 30% to prevent malaria episodes" in the Greater Mekong Subregion.

Eradication in peninsular Southeast Asia is a distant and perhaps unachievable dream.

Jamie