BO RAI (Thailand): Once a smuggling stop for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge guerrillas,Thailand’s border town of Bo Rai finds itself on the frontline of a new battle against drug-resistant strains of malaria that could frustrate global attempts to stamp out the disease.
Malaria killed about 445,000 people last year, more than 90% of them in sub-Saharan Africa, but the figure has nearly halved since 2000.
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