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Ministry worried by drug-resistant malaria

    NAIROBI
    The ministry of health has expressed concern at the increasing ineffectiveness of chloroquine in tackling malaria and recommended other drugs in its place. News organisations quoted Deputy Minister of Health Tatu Ntimizi as saying that between 1997 and 1999 had shown plasmodium malarial parasites to have a strong resistance to chloroquine, and a failure rate for the drug of almost 52 percent in malaria-prone regions. The ministry now recommended preventive rather than curative measures, and the use of fansidar, amodiaquine and comaquine for malaria treatment, she said.

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