Zinc supplementation does not protect young African children against malaria
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 - 17:31
in Health & Medicine
A study led by Hans Verhoef, a researcher at Wageningen University, the Netherlands, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK, and published in this week's PLoS Medicine shows that supplementing young Tanzanian children with zinc either alone or in combination with other multi-nutrients does not protect against malaria.