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Curbing malaria: expert for blocking parasite transmission [1]

HYDERABAD: Kotis C.Kafatos, president, European Research Council and Chair of Immunogenomics, Imperial College, London, has expressed scepticism over the long-term effectiveness of treating malaria through drugs or even a vaccine if developed and called eradicating the disease by blocking the transmission of the parasite from the mosquito to humans.

Publication Date: 
28/11/2008
Hindu (New Delhi) [2]
Tags:
Health [3], Malaria [4], Medical Research [5], Vector Borne Diseases [6]
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