Children run over an improvised bridge in the village of Phnom Dambang where around 95 percent of people suffer from malaria, according to a local health care worker near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Oeur Samoeun, a young man who suffers from malaria, rests outside his home in the village of O'Broh near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
People sit in the village of Phnom Dambang where around 95 percent of people suffered from malaria, according to a local health care worker near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Men sit in the village of Phnom Dambang where around 95 percent of people suffer from malaria, according to a local health care worker near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Cambodians gather near the home of their relative who is suffering from malaria in the village of O'Broh near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
A migrant worker holds pumpkin seeds while working in a field near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Migrant workers from non-malarial areas may be more susceptible to the parasite allowing it to mutate due to several factors including usage of sub-standard and/or counterfeit drugs. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
A Cambodian boy sits near the home of his relative who is suffering from malaria in the village of O'Broh near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
Chan Kolap, a local volunteer helping health officials to fight malaria, shows her anti-malaria kit in the village of O'Broh near Pailin in western Cambodia January 28, 2010. Bordering with Thailand, this former Khmer Rouge stronghold and dusty gem mining town is now better known for a malarial parasite that is worrying health experts in the region. Studies and research show artemisinin-based therapies - currently the most effective treatment against malaria - are taking longer to cure some of the patients. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj
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