The Cure for Malaria Could be in Your Backyard
Malaria is a mosquito-borne disease that has a disproportionate effect in poor and underdeveloped countries without access to western medicine. According to the WHO’s World Malaria Report, there were 212 million new cases of malaria worldwide in 2015 and an estimated 429,000 deaths. Malaria is caused by the Plasmodium parasite. Plasmodium falciparum is the deadliest of …