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Wei-Chiao Huang, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York and Jonathan Lovell, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

(THE CONVERSATION) Is it possible to eradicate malaria?

It is a question with which many researchers have grappled, and many ideas have been proposed. The reason malaria has garnered so much attention is that it is one of the deadliest diseases, infecting 200 million people and killing more than 500,000 annually, with infants in Afric...