Myanmar 'could be malaria gateway'
- Published: 28 Oct 2012 at 00.00
- Newspaper section: News
Myanmar could become the gateway for the spread of new, drug-resistant malaria to the world if the problem is not contained at the border, experts said yesterday.
The country has the largest incidence of malaria in mainland Southeast Asia, estimated at 480,000 cases with 800 deaths in 2010.
"Our country is the gateway for this kind of drug-resistant malaria to spread west to Bangladesh and India, so if we cannot contain it at the source, this is a global threat," said Saw Lwin, deputy director-general of Myanmar's Health Ministry.
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