Hypertension drugs counter leading cause of mortality in malaria patients

Malaria is a mosquito-borne infection where a bite passes a parasite into the bloodstream. Eliminated from the United States in the 1950s, the disease still kills hundreds of thousands each year, mostly children in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Chukwuma Muanya, Assistant Editor

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