Malaria -- Malaysia
A new strain of malaria has been found to be spreading across northern Sabah.
Incidences of infections by the strain -- _Plasmodium knowlesi_ -- have increased alarmingly over the past decade and it is now the main cause of human malaria in the state.
A research programme called the Monkeybar project has started work to determine the spread of the new type of malaria by collecting blood samples from 10 000 people in 170 villages in the districts of Ranau, Pitas, Kota Marudu, Kudat, and
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