Temple of malarial doom

摘要

The 11th-century Preah Vihear temple lies at the centre of an international dispute for ownership between Cambodia and Thailand. It is also close to a region that last year saw the emergence of a form of malaria resistant to artemisinins, the most potent antimalarial treatment we have. As troops from Cambodia and Thailand exchange fire, this drug-resistant strain of the disease now threatens to spread.