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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?
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To: S. maltophilia who wrote (755)8/31/2007 1:48:53 AM
From: S. maltophilia   of 1267
 
Another angle:

EPIDEMICS
Discovery Could Help Stop Malaria At Its Source - The Mosquito

Malaria parasites are extremely finicky about their hosts. Birds, rodents, humans, and primates all can be infected with malaria, but each species is infected by a different species of mosquito - and each of those mosquitoes is infected by a different malaria parasite.
by Staff Writers
Troy NY (SPX) Aug 30, 2007
As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world's population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease - malaria. Now an interdisciplinary team led by researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has found a key link that causes malarial infection in both humans and mosquitoes.

If this link in the chain of infection can be broken at its source - the mosquito - then the spread of malaria could be stopped without any man, woman, or child needing to a take a drug. The researchers' discovery will be published in the Aug. 31 edition of the Journal of Biological Chemistry.

The team found that humans and the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite share the same complex carbohydrate, heparan sulfate.....
terradaily.com
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