Why Can the Immune System Kill Malaria Parasites?
• Getting a Grip: Parasites’ Invasion of Blood Cells Provides Clues for Vaccines, Drugs • First Human Trial of Transmission-Blocking Malaria Vaccines Planned • Synthetic Herbs Fight Drug-Resistant Malaria • Right or Resistant: Which Drug Will Work? • Overcoming Genetic DiversityVaccines For Everyone NIAID is one of 17 institutes of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the federal focal point for biomedical research. NIH is an agency of the U.S. Public Health Service, Department of Health and Human Services. How Big a Problem is Malaria? Malaria is very common. Each year, 300 to 500 million people develop malaria and 1.5 to 3 millionmostly childrendie, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Countries in tropical Africa account for more than 90 percent of the cases and more than 6 percent occur in India, Brazil, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Vietnam and Colombia. Malaria control is difficult. A third of the world’s population1.78 billionlives where malaria once was reduced or el
