treatment of malaria

During the past 2,000 years, Chinese oriental medicine specialists have been treating malaria with root extract from a kind of hydrangea flower growing in Tibet and Nepal.

UK researchers have found a new compound that can be used to treat malaria, which is killing nearly half a million people worldwide every year, with a single dose.

The enzyme that the team just discovered is called Phosphatidylinositol-4-kinase or PI4K.

The immature malaria parasite is 100 times more resistant to the disease than mature parasites, according to The Australian.