One of the oldest malaria riddles may have been solved in 2014… by a team of researchers sorting through poop [1]. Of the malaria species that infect people, the two that cause the vast majority of human suffering have the catchy names of Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax. P. falciparum is primarily responsible for infections in sub-Saharan Africa. It’s the more deadly of the pair, and … [Read more...]