Sentences with phrase «risks of human malaria»

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The risk of developing severe malaria turns out to be strongly linked to the process by which the malaria parasite gains entry to the human red blood cell.

A study from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics and their collaborators has identified a genetic rearrangement of red blood cell glycophorin receptors that confers a 40 per cent reduced risk from severe malaria.

Malaria causes the bodies of its human hosts to emit specific odours from the skin that make the hosts even more attractive to mosquitoes, which invites further bites and risks infection of more mosquitoes and wider transmission of the disease.

He says that a combination of azithromycin and chloroquine (a common malaria drug), currently approved to treat pregnant women in areas at high risk of malaria, would be fairly easy to test in an initial human trial.

7:23 p.m. Updated Below The climate blogger Joe Romm and I agree (breaking news): Scientific research and assessments examining the link between human - driven climate change and malaria exposure have, for the most part, accurately gauged and conveyed the nature of the risk that warming could swell the ranks of people afflicted with this awful mosquito - borne disease.