Farrar: There's no doubt that the most dangerous emerging disease is drug resistance. Every year, hundreds of thousands of people die from drug resistant malaria, HIV or TB infections as well as from drug resistant infections in intensive care units over the world. Take the phenomenal Chinese herbal drug for malaria -- Qinghaosu, Artemisinin, one of the very, very few true wonder drugs. After about 20 years of use in Southeast Asia, we have started to see Artemisinin-resistant malaria in Cambodia and it's now spreading to Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand and Indonesia. Inevitably, that could spread to Africa.
Read all of the Spiegel interview with epidemics expert Jeremy Farrar.
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