Science Illustrated

... eliminate malaria

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Annually, 400,000+ people die of malaria. Now, the disease is to be eliminated once and for all by spreading a GM version of the Serratia AS1 bacterium, which prevents malaria parasites from multiplyin­g in mosquitoes. Normally, the bacterium lives in mosquito intestines, but it can also survive in oviducts, etc., from where the bacterium spreads during mating.

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