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South-east Asia awash with fake drugs
20% of malaria deaths blamed on
bogus cures · Hi-tech counterfeiting racket based in China
Ian MacKinnon, South-east Asia correspondent
Thursday February 22, 2007
The Guardian, UK
An "epidemic" of counterfeit therapeutic drugs is sweeping
south-east Asia, costing hundreds of thousands of lives as
victims take them under the mistaken belief that they are
receiving vital treatment for their illnesses. A British
doctor working in the Laotian capital, Vientiane, found that
most of the anti-malarial medicines tested in a sample were
sophisticated fakes, often displaying holograms on the
packaging, originally aimed at making counterfeiting
difficult....More
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