Africa: Malaria Researchers Are Getting Closer to Outsmarting the World's Deadliest Parasite

Africa: Malaria Researchers Are Getting Closer to Outsmarting the World's Deadliest Parasite

Analysis - Every year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn't confined to poor, rural areas - it's a global threat that travels with people across borders.

Malaria researchers are getting closer to outsmarting the world’s deadliest parasite

Malaria is transmitted to people by mosquitoes infected with a parasite from the _Plasmodium_ family. Jim Gathany via CDC/Dr. William CollinsEvery year, malaria kills more than 600,000 people worldwide. Most of them are children under 5 in sub-Saharan Africa. But the disease isn’t confined to poor, rural areas – it’s a global threat that travels with people across borders. For decades, the fight against malaria has felt like running in place. Be…

Promising results for a new anti-malaria drug

Malaria It is one of the deadliest diseases in human history. Its cause is not a bacterium or a virus, but a single-celled parasite called Plasmodium (Plasmodium), which is transmitted to humans by the bite of the Anopheles mosquito. After infection, the parasite migrates to the liver, multiplies, then invades our red blood cells and […]