Fears of malaria spread in Africa as study finds resistance to frontline drug A ground-breaking study from Uganda has unveiled the first evidence that young African children with severe malaria may be developing partial resistance to artemisinin, one of the world's most powerful malaria drugs. The findings were presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) and published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). Researchers documented that among 100 children aged 6 months to 12 years, treated for severe malaria caused by...