Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, may have hit upon a way to make malaria treatment easily accessible. They have found that a combination of curcumin from turmeric (a
Though there are more than 160 species of the plasmodium parasite, only four infect humans. Amongst the two common ones, Pf is more closely related to the parasite that causes malaria in chimpanzees and birds. Pv, in contrast, is more like the one that affects macaques, a tropical monkey.
