Word: malariae
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Sheu, a biochemistry concentrator from Dunwoody, Ga., will be going to Oxford to research malaria and the human response to the disease. He said that he hopes to coming up with a vaccine which will help millions...
...There's no effective vaccine for malaria yet," Sheu said. "[But] it affects 500 million a year and kills 3 million a year. It's really tremendous compared to anything else...
Professor Bossert said he plans to work with a graduate student on the population biology of malaria, a subject he has never researched...
...Animals that thrive in warmer climates, like the Edith's checkerspot butterfly in the American West, have begun to extend their range northward, while cold-loving creatures such as brook trout have vanished in some areas. Plants are pushing to higher latitudes and higher altitudes. Tropical diseases, including malaria and dengue fever, have begun to move into regions that were once too cold for their insect carriers...
...element. There was no one to hold her back from healing the sick. On a recent night at around 10, a loud, flailing sound erupted outside Seaman's tent. A mother was desperately trying to revive her eight-year-old son, who was in a critical stage of cerebral malaria. As he slipped in and out of consciousness, his mother frantically tried to keep him breathing. When Seaman bent down to get closer, a swarm of mosquitoes descended on her ankles and arms in an African feeding frenzy. Ignoring her own discomfort, she prepared...