Super malaria is a variant of highly drug resistant malaria. It has spread rapidly to Southeast Asian countries. This germ of malaria cannot be controlled by any medicine. The virus was first identified in Cambodia in 2008. Later, the virus spread to Vietnam, Laos and Thailand through mosquitoes. Malaria bacteria in Bangladesh have become resistant to chloroquine. Plasmodium falciparum has become resistant to artemisinin.
The research team of the Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok wrote and published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases that the control and elimination of fast-spreading super malaria is a major challenge for people in the world today.
This superbug strain of malaria has developed resistance to all drugs. It is a major threat to public health worldwide. About 700,000 people have died worldwide due to drug-resistant bacteria. The death toll will exceed several million by 2050 unless appropriate measures are taken.