Drug-resistant malaria is reported to be spreading in South East Asia, and has now reached at the Cambodia-Thailand border.
Scientists have now warned that revolutionary action is needed to prevent further spreading of malaria parasites which are found resistant to key drugs.
According to them the current spreading would weaken the existing control measures on malaria.
No evidence are found regarding the resistance in three African sites comprising of Kenya, Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The study by scientists have analyzed blood samples from more than 1,000 malaria patients located in 10 countries across Asia and Africa.
It is found that the malaria parasites have developed resistance over front-line drugs known as Artemisinins.
This phenomenon was first observed in western and northern Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam, and eastern Burma, currently known as Myanmar.
There were also signs of emerging resistance in central Burma, southern Laos and north-eastern Cambodia.

Video on the spreading of malaria parasite