Every year more than 1 million people lose their lives due Malaria. It is caused by a parasite carried by mosquitoes. The health authorities all over the world are working day and night to control this disease. Despite of various measures taken, malaria is still taking several lives every year. The latest research done by the Lakeridge Health Centre in Oshawa revealed a very dangerous fact. The study revealed that chloroquine increases the risk of resistance to other antibiotics. Chloroquine is the cheapest and most widely used drug to cure malaria.

People living in remote villages in Guyana, which is located in the north of South America were studied under the research. These people were specially chosen to study the antibiotics resistance. The main reason behind this selection was that these people have never been exposed to antibiotics. Hence the researchers expected zero resistance level in these people. But the findings told some other story. The study showed that 4.8 percent people under the study had high antibiotic resistance level. These people with high antibiotic resistance had strains of E. coli that were resistant to the antibiotic ciprofloxacin, the generic name for Bayer AG's drug Cipro, and one of the most popular fluoroquinolones. The Tests of local water samples showed the presence of choloquine.

Further research proved that the main reason behind this high resistance level is the use of chloroquine. The researchers conducted other test in lab to confirm the findings of the study. cholroquine was not sufficient to kill malaria infection but it was sufficient enough to increase the anti biotic resistance level in the humans.it created resistance against  the most used antibiotics ,Fluoroquinolones or quinolones.

Dr. Michael Silverman of Lakeridge Health Centre in Oshawa, Ontario said that the loss of effect of these commonly used antibiotics could give a death blow to public health.

The researchers are still doubtful whether high resistance level is related to cholroquine only. Other antibiotics have similar effects or not. The researchers added that the only possible solution to fight this complicated problem is that increase the efforts to prevent malaria.