Malaria Treatment FAQ:
ie: The discovery of this parasite in mosquitoes earned the British scientist Ronald Ross the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902.
ie: The discovery of this parasite in mosquitoes earned the British scientist Ronald Ross the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1902.
ie: In 1907, Alphonse Laveran received the prize for his findings that the parasite was present in human blood.
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Sickle cell anemia exists because malaria is so prevelant in africa that the locals adapted their blood (through natural selection) so that it is in a shape that it is unaffectd (or at least not mortally effected) by the parasite.
The price for being immune to malaria-inefficent ability to move red blood cells (and therefore oxygen) to the body’s cells.