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>Now he wants this terrible disease to be destroyed, and there are a lot of obstacles in his way (and after all, destroying a well entrenched virus is a feat th
by jnbiche 12y ago
>Now he wants this terrible disease to be destroyed, and there are a lot of obstacles in his way (and after all, destroying a well entrenched virus is a feat that humanity reached only once before), but still in my heart I feel like I wouldn't bet on the virus on that one.
Correction: malaria is not a virus. It is one of 4 different species of protozoa (type of single-celled organism).
- nolok 12y agoThanks, I know very little about it and always assumed it was a virus.
- spikels 12y agoSlight clarification: there are 4 COMMON species of the malaria parasite that are known infect HUMANS. Also known are around 10 rarer species that also infect humans and a few hundreds that infect other animals.