{"id":4273,"date":"2019-07-23T10:34:38","date_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:34:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/drug-resistant-malaria-parasites-spreading-aggressively-across-south-east-asia"},"modified":"2019-07-23T10:34:38","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T01:34:38","slug":"drug-resistant-malaria-parasites-spreading-aggressively-across-south-east-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=4273","title":{"rendered":"Drug-resistant malaria parasites &#8216;spreading aggressively&#8217; across south-east Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 80% of the most common carriers of the disease are immune to the most common treatments, researchers find<\/p>\n<p>Drug-resistant forms of malaria-causing parasites are spreading across south-east Asia leading to \u201calarmingly high\u201d treatment failure rates of frontline medication, researchers have warned.<\/p>\n<p>In twin studies published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, they revealed that in parts of Thailand, Vietnam and Cambodia up to 80% of the most common malaria parasites were now resistant to the two most common antimalarial drugs.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jul\/23\/drug-resistant-malaria-parasites-spreading-aggressively-across-south-east-asia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 80% of the most common carriers of the disease are immune to the most common treatments, researchers findDrug-resistant forms of malaria-causing parasites are spreading across south-east Asia leading to \u201calarmingly high\u201d treatment failure rates o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,346,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-health","category-malaria"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4276,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4273\/revisions\/4276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}