Sentences with phrase «origin of the human malaria»

In 2010, Hahn and colleagues discovered that gorillas were the origin of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum, the most prevalent and lethal of the malaria parasites that infect people.

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Malaria, a scourge on human society that still kills more than 400,000 people a year, is often thought to be of more modern origin — ranging from 15,000 to 8 million years old, caused primarily by one genus of protozoa, Plasmodium, and spread by anopheline mosquitoes.