Immune cell offers new clue to worst malaria cases

Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 19:14 in Biology & Nature

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A novel immune cell may offer an important new clue to why malaria kills some people and not others. Australian researchers discovered a specialized cell crowding the bloodstream of severe malaria sufferers but not the less sick - a cell that seems to switch off a different immune-system attack....

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