A malaria vaccine shows encouraging results in trials

A method to stop multiplication of the malaria parasite

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Breakthrough in fighting severe malaria among children

ARTEMISININ, a drug isolated from sweet wormwood, has finally been approved by global health agencies as the first line of treatment of malaria instead of quinine, to which Plasmodium is showing increased resistance. The treatment is given as a cocktail known as artemisinin-based combination therapy (ACT) and it has shown dramatic results.

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