Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Manipulative Malaria Parasite Makes You More Attractive (to Mosquitoes) - New York Times

Manipulative Malaria Parasite Makes You More Attractive (to Mosquitoes) - New York Times: "Malaria is a staggeringly devastating disease, striking an estimated 300 million to 500 million people a year and killing more than a million of them. Scientists have long wondered how the parasite that causes malaria - a single-cell creature, plasmodium, carried by mosquitoes - manages to be so successful."