Epstein-Barr virus co-infection may boost malaria mortality in childhood
Thursday, May 21, 2015 - 16:10
in Health & Medicine
Malaria researchers are calling attention to a trouble-maker whose effects may be underappreciated: Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Their experiments with mice show that co-infection with a virus closely related to EBV can make a survivable malaria parasite infection lethal.