Doctors can still treat infected patients with stronger drug cocktails. But they worry that it is just a matter of time before those medicines also become ineffective.

　　Dr. Francois Nosten has been leading research on the Thai - Myanmar border for the past 30 years. He says that the clock is ticking, meaning time is running out.

　　This is a global public health emergency because we could see in our studies that the progression of resistance is quite fast. For example in none of the patients were infected with a resistant parasite. In , 80% of the patients are infected with the resistant parasite, so in just a few years the majority of the infections are caused by the resistant parasite.

　　Dr. Nosten wants a stronger method of dealing with resistant malaria to control its spread. He wants to give medicine to whole villages where the parasite can lie inactive and unseen in many people.

　　What we predict is in order to stop the progression of artemisinin resistance, we need to eliminate malaria. Its not good to just reduce the number of cases, reduce the transmission of the disease, we need to eliminate the parasite.

　　Medical teams are making plans to give anti-malarial drugs in villages where many cases of malaria have been reported. Many are hoping that this effort will stop the spread of an increasingly dangerous parasite.

　　Im Anna Matteo.

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