Protection from severe malaria explained

Friday, November 18, 2011 - 16:31 in Health & Medicine

Why do people with a hereditary mutation of the red blood pigment hemoglobin (as is the case with sickle-cell anemia prevalent in Africa) not contract severe malaria? Scientists have now solved this mystery.

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