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Article: Researchers find new way to attack malaria parasite, cure disease in monkeys
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- AP Worldstream
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- February 14, 2002
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
French researches have found a new class of drugs that in laboratory
animals can cure malaria, a mosquito-borne disease that kills more
than 2 million people annually, many in Africa and Southeast Asia.
The drug, called G25 by the team that developed it, disables the spread
of the malaria parasite by blocking its ability to make copies of
itself inside the red blood cells of victims.
In laboratory studies, the researchers report Friday in the journal
Science, small doses of G25 were able to cure infections of two types
of malaria in two types of monkeys. The experiments also suggested
that the drug has a very low toxic effect, the researchers said. ...