Malaria is one of the oldest diseases in human history, dating back to ancient civilizations in Greece and China. It has even been attributed to aiding the fall of the Roman Empire.

So if we’ve been fighting malaria for so long, why haven’t we been able to stop it?
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Read More:
Unraveling the 3D genome of human malaria parasites.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30009946

Malaria parasite transforms itself to hide from human immune system
https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/duraisingh-malaria-parasite-transforms/

Malaria and the liver: Immunological hide-and-seek or subversion of immunity from within?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4332352/

Le Roch Malaria Lab at University of California, Riverside
https://lerochlab.ucr.edu/

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