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Drug-resistant malaria parasite spreading

Parasites resistant to the frontline malaria drug have spread westward from Southeast Asia to just short of the Indian border -- a gateway to Africa, researchers warned Friday.

A spread into India "would pose a serious threat to the global control and eradication of malaria," said a statement that accompanied the study published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases.

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