Drug-Resistant Malaria Spreads, Scientists Hunt Down Genetic Causes
Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 14:00
in Biology & Nature
The malaria parasite is a wily organism, shifting its life stages as it flits from human to mosquito and back again. It still kills some 600,000 people each year and has outwitted eradication efforts, having developed resistance to previously popular drugs and, thus far, eluded vaccine-induced immunity. [More]
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