Resistance to malaria drugs has spread in SE Asia    The
availability of therapies using the drug artemisinin has helped
cut global malaria deaths by a quarter in the past decade. But
over the same period, resistance to the drug emerged on
Thailand's borders with Myanmar and Cambodia and has spread. It
has been detected in southern Vietnam and likely exists in
southern Laos, said Prof. Nick White of the Thailand-based
Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit.  White, a
leading authority on the subject, said that while there's no
confirmed evidence of resistance in Africa, there's plenty of
risk of transmission by air travelers from affected countries,
such as construction laborers, aid workers or soldiers serving
on peacekeeping missions.  "We have to take a radical approach
to this. It's like a cancer that's spreading and we have to take
it out now," White told a conference at the Center for Strategic
and International Studies think tank in Washington. He said no
alternative anti-malarial drug is on th