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Ideal Target For Malaria Therapy Discovered By Scientists

February 4, 2010 by Medical Dude  
Filed under Medical News

Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified a protein made by the malaria parasite that is essential to its ability to take over human red blood cells.

Malaria, which is spread by mosquito bites, kills between 1 million and 3 million people annually in Third World countries. Death results from damage to red [...]