Standard Malaria Treatment Works Well Against Resistant Strains: Study

A mosquito, in an undated file photograph. Valery Hache/AFP via Getty ImagesThe recommended treatment for malaria worked well, even against strains resistant to the treatment, researchers reported in a new study.Children with resistant malaria strains and treated with intravenous artesunate experienced about the same outcomes as children with non-resistant strains who also received the treatment, Dr. Kathryn Maitland, director of Imperial College’s Centre of African Research and Engagement, and coauthors said in the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on June 3.