This is both excellent and at the same time _terrible_, because it appears to be an adaptation on the part of the malaria parasite to be more virulent: > "Our

This is both excellent and at the same time _terrible_, because it appears to be an adaptation on the part of the malaria parasite to be more virulent: > "Our previous work in a mouse model found that malaria infection altered the odors of infected mice in ways that made them more attractive to mosquitoes, particularly at a stage of infection where the transmissible stage of the parasite was present at high levels[...]" In turn, this reminds me of a spate of articles that hit ~2y ago on T. Gondii, which appears to alter the scent of host cats' urine to make it more appealing to prey animals: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii