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A drug-resistant malaria parasite from southeast Asia can infect African mosquitoes according to a new study. Lab tests showed that drug-immune Plasmodium falciparum, the deadliest malaria parasite, are able to infect the Anopheles coluzzii mosquito-the main transmitter of the disease in Africa. The parasite has evolved to resist the effects of artemisinin, the frontline malaria drug which earned its maker a Nobel Medicine Prize. The discovery suggests Africa-where malaria will cause an estimated 400,000 deaths in 2015-is more at risk for drug-resistant malaria infections than previously thought. [Source: Medical Xpress]
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