24 July, 2007 |

Epidemic of malaria in India

Physicians consider that in east India epidemic of malaria has begun. According to the official data, at least 25 people have died of this illness for last 2 weeks in state of Tripura. Authorities try to take a situation under the control and to appoint quarantine in areas of malaria.
Medical brigades are forwarded to separate areas of staff by helicopters. Local hospitals are already over flown by the patients, who have been infected by malaria. The informal statistics is at least in 2 times worse - according to some information more than 50 people have died of illness for last two weeks.
The malaria represents a great danger to India now. In this country disease of a malaria has grown in some times for last 20 years, and, according to experts, there was a number of mutations, in result of which doctors even more often should collide with infecting agents, steady against derivatives of quinine and other kinds of anti-malaria medicines.
 

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