Beating Malaria :The Scientist [2006-12-01]


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Beating Malaria One morning in August, a 24-year-old Karen tribeswoman living in a remote village in northeast Myanmar woke with a rapidly mounting fever. Though five months into her fourth pregnancy, she walked two hours to the rain-swollen Moei River, the poorly patrolled border with Thailand. After paying a boatman five baht (about 15 cents) to make the dangerous crossing, she arrived at a