Polluted water interferes with drug that combats parasitic scourge
Arsenic contamination fuels resistance to treatment for leishmaniasis
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Regular exposure to arsenic in drinking water could make one drug that kills the Leishmania parasite, shown here in a bone marrow cell, less effective.
CDC/Dr. L.L. Moore, Jr.