Drug-resistant malaria: The world's next big health crisis?


While malaria death rates have dropped it still claims a lot of lives. In Myanmar, which has the largest malaria burden in the region, the fight against the deadly disease continues.

Ka Lar Nar caught malaria for the sixth time when he was working away from home on his small farm in the jungle of south-eastern Myanmar but this time it was a lot harder to get rid of it.

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