Pentagon Joins International Effort To Stop Drug-Resistant Malaria In Mekong Region

Financial Times: Pentagon joins international fight to halt drug-resistant malaria
“The U.S. military is throwing its weight behind an international campaign to stop drug-resistant malaria spreading from southeast Asia to Africa and triggering a fresh international health crisis. The Pentagon has joined forces with countries across the Mekong region in an effort to staunch a new strain of the mosquito-borne disease that sprang up in remote and conflict-prone regions and is now lapping towards the India border…” (Peel, 12/7).

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