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Malaria parasites can kill people, but death is not inevitable. Most infected individuals recover, some after experiencing relatively mild symptoms or none at all. What accounts for this variability? A new paper reports a set of clever experiments in a mouse model of malaria infection that shows that the conditions experienced by parasites before they reach the mammalian bloodstream can determine just how virulent they are. [Source: Nature | News & Views]
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