How Cerebral Malaria Tricks the Brain’s Defense Systems – Technology Networks

Every year, more than 400,000 people die from malaria, the majority are children under the age of five years old, who die from a disease which affects more than 200 million people a year.
The most serious form of the disease is cerebral malaria which may cause severe neurological consequences and, in the worst-case scenario, result in death. The precise mechanism behind cerebral malaria has remained a mystery – until now, says a research group from the Department of Immunology and Microbiology at…

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