| characterization of "yaa chud" medicine on the thailand-myanmar border: selecting for drug-resistant malaria and threatening public health. | multidrug-resistant plasmodium falciparum malaria is a severe public health problem on the thailand-myanmar border. many villagers buy packets of 4-5 mixed medicines ("yaa chud") from shops without medical assessment as their first-line malaria treatment. in 2000-2001 a local researcher purchased 50 yaa chud from 44 shops around mae sot, thailand and myawaddy, myanmar (burma), for his wife who was said to be pregnant with fever and drowsiness. the tablets/capsules were provisionally identified b ... | 2008 | 18981500 |