519 - Malaria Mondays Miniseries Part I: How Malaria’s Weird Biology Is Its Secret to Success

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Malaria, a mosquito-borne infection, affects some 228 million people globally each year, killing over 400,000 of them—primarily children under the age of 5. In part one of a miniseries,</span> <strong>Thomas Locke</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">, host of the</span> <a href= "https://malaria.jhsph.edu/johns-hopkins-malaria-minute-podcast/"><span style="font-weight: 400;"> Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute podcast</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">“Malaria Minute,” breaks down the parasite’s unique lifecycle which allows it to adapt rapidly to drugs and to our immune system’s efforts to fight it off. You can learn</span> <a href="http://malaria.jhsph.edu"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">more</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">about groundbreaking malaria research.</span></p>