New strategy emerges for fighting drug-resistant malaria
Wednesday, January 15, 2014 - 13:00
in Health & Medicine
Malaria is one of the most deadly infectious diseases in the world today, claiming the lives of over half a million people every year, and the recent emergence of parasites resistant to current treatments threatens to undermine efforts to control the disease. Researchers are now onto a new strategy to defeat drug-resistant strains of the parasite.