Fake Malaria Drugs Fuel Rise Of Drug-Resistant Disease
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Audio for this story from Morning Edition will be available at approximately 9:00 a.m. ET. A boy watches as malaria medicine is given out to patients at a malaria clinic in Sittwe, Myanmar. Shoddy and phony malaria drugs are a longstanding problem in the country. A boy watches as malaria medicine is given out to patients at a malaria clinic in Sittwe, Myanmar. Shoddy and phony malaria drugs are a longstanding problem in the country. Paula Bronstein/Getty Images Counterfeit drugs are a growing scourge around the world. They're generating millions of dollars in revenue for organized crime and fueling the rise of drug-resistant parasites. Anti-malarials are among the most popular drugs to fake. But these faux pharmaceuticals are particularly dangerous because malaria can kill a person in a matter of days.
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| 0 | "Someone comes with malaria," says Stephane Proux, ... |
| -0.404136 | "That's a deadly trade. Those people are not only crooks, they are criminals, definitely criminals," he says. ... |
| -0.0110983 | "In the early days, it was quite easy to tell the fake from true because the hologram[s] were really badly done and very rough, and you could see straight away that it was fake," Proux says. ... |
| 0.428934 | "They are champion counterfeiters those guys. They are really, really well crafted holograms," Proux says. |
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| -0.222771 | "It's impossible to know the exact scale of the problem of fake anti-malarials," he says. |
| -0.191597 | "It's impossible to know the exact scale of the problem of fake anti-malarials," he says. "But in some markets, it's as low as single-digit percentages, and in the worst markets half the market is fake." |
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Myanmar and other parts of Southeast Asia are awash with shoddy and phony malaria drugs. Some fakes are almost indistinguishable from authentic drugs. The counterfeits can be deadly for patients, but they also threaten to undermine major weapons against the disease.
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