American Doctors Unravel How Cerebral Malaria Kills Children

Nobody has been able to determine how Malaria kills children...until now. A doctor from Michigan who solved the mystery says, look inside the brain .

In a new study, researchers have unraveled how malaria kills children every minute.

While medical researchers have successfully developed effective drugs to kill the malaria parasite, efforts to treat the effects of the disease have not been as successful.

Malaria - Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Prevention, Treatment
Malaria is caused by a parasite that enters blood through the bite of an infected mosquito. It is characterized by fever, vomiting, shivering, sweating and other symptoms.

Now, Michigan State University’s Dr. Terrie Taylor and her team have discovered the cause of death in children with cerebral malaria, the deadliest form of the disease.

Taylor said that they found kids with the disease develop massively swollen brains, as it is forced out through the bottom of the skull and compresses the brain stem. This pressure causes the children to stop breathing and die.

She said that since they now knew the reason, they could work on finding new treatments.

Study Reveals How Blood Group O Protects Against Malaria
A new study by team of Scandinavian scientists has revealed how blood group O protects against malaria.

The study is published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

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People With Blood Group A Prone to Malaria
Blood cells of those with blood group A produce a protein which forms clumps and increases the severity of the disease.

New Malaria-Detecting Assays can Detect Malaria Parasites Even at Very Low Levels
An international team of scientists has developed new assays that can detect malaria parasites in human blood even at very low levels.