Dry season parasite behaviour could provide new route for malaria treatment
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11 August 2021Dry season parasite behaviour could provide new route for malaria treatment
Scientists believe they have cracked the question of how the malaria parasite keeps a low profile in infected people during the dry season in Africa in order to avoid immune attention and trigger outbreaks when the rains and mosquitoes return. The knowledge could open up new ways to combat the disease, which killed 409,000 people, mostly children, in 2019 alone.
