1.   -- Cure rates of malaria in Thailand have dropped steeply within a few years after each new malaria drug has been introduced.

2.   Scientific obstacles aside, new malaria drugs face an uphill economic struggle, cautions Winstanley.

3.   This year, the conference of the International Society of Travel Medicine had a major new malaria drug to discuss, Malarone.

4.   He said most private laboratories were not adequately equipped to identify the new malaria strain and doctors have ended up treating patients with the wrong drugs.

5.   A new malaria drug has yielded very good results in tests, the British pharmaceutical group Glaxo Wellcome which designed the drug said Wednesday.