Professor Mercedes Pascual

Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago

Sciences & Technology

Discovering the deadly diversity of malaria

The discovery of the huge diversity in malaria genes that disguise the parasite from our immune systems shows we’ve been fighting malaria as if it were measles, when we should think of it as flu

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