Australian researchers from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute is taking the world first clinical trial by injecting infected malaria into a healthy person to see if new drugs can stop malaria from further transmission.
There are more than 300 people in Brisbane has already participate with this malaria research and so far it could be the new approach to prevent malaria from spreading.
However, Professor Sir Richard Feachem the co-founder of the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria and also the chair of the Lancet Commission on Malaria Eradication said that due to the emergence of monkey strains from South East Asia which has infested to many regions and the malaria drug resistance or obsolete, millions could die.
However, Senior Scientist Professor James McCarthy, an infectious specialist from the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute said that:
"So what we're trying to do is to think out side the box and develop a way to actually interrupt the malaria transmission, normally we're aiming to treat the parasite inside people that's making them sick, but if we can get rid of the ability of the malaria parasite to transmit to mosquitos, then we can actually block the onward transmission of Malaria and therefore basically get rid of it. So this is completely new way of approaching malaria elimination.''
After just two weeks of this trial, the adult malaria parasite which causes sickness is killed leaving only its young offspring to incubate, which is a very promising result indeed.
Professor James McCarthy will also lead his team to join the first World Malaria Congress Conference in Melbourne with many international delegation starting from the 1st -5th July 2018 at Melbourne Exhibition Centre, where researchers, research papers will be presented, ideas shared, discussed and so they would come up with new strategies hopefully to be implemented to deal with malaria.
Australia is a leader in malaria research since WWII and free from malaria since the 1960s due to the support of tax payer money through Australia government. But just last month Paraguay has just announced that it is also free from malaria, following by Algeria, Argentina and Uzbekistan. #
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