Cure For Malaria: Malaria is a type of infectious disease caused by mosquitoes, which is caused by the bite of a female Anopheles mosquito. Every year thousands of people die due to malaria in India, in terms of deaths due to malaria, India is in the world. Fourth place. India has set a target of becoming malaria-free by 2027 and eliminating the disease by 2030. Although medicines are already available to fight malaria, another success has been achieved in this episode, a team of scientists from Jawaharlal University has found a unique way to fight it.
Malaria will be treated by targeting lipids
The team of scientists has found a new way to fight malaria through an antitumor drug, in this method, targeting lipids will be used to treat malaria. The team led by Professor Shailja Singh of the Special Center for Molecular Medicine in JNU tested the antitumor agent. and found that it eliminated the parasite's source of nutrition and ultimately killed it. The results related to this discovery have been published in the American Society for Microbiology's IMPACT journal, they say that behavioural development of resistance to virtually all antimalarial drugs is a challenge to the eradication of malaria today.
Despite the success of artemisinin-based chemotherapy against malaria, many children still struggle to survive and die from severe malaria, researchers say. There may be an alternative to a drug targeting the parasites.
How many species of malaria parasite are there?
Mosquito-borne malaria is caused by a virus, which first multiplies in the liver cell and then in the red blood cell. According to the US-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, four types of malaria parasites infect humans, including Plasmodium, Falciparum, P. vivax, ovale, and P. malariae.
