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8 comments:
The discovery of the new species of malaria-carrying parasites will definitely help find a vaccine quicker.
This article was pretty interesting. It is amazing that scientists might be able to manipulate this new disease to learn more about malaria and maybe find a cure to various diseases. I wonder why scientists weren't able to find out that the parasite was common between human and primate. (I think)
It is surprising to me that Chimps and gorillas were probably the source that transmitted malaria to humans. I agree with Brandon F. that this will help to find a vaccine faster. Hopefully it can be used on gorillas, because they are already an endangered species, and do not need another factor contributing to their extinction. I find it funny how they say that chimpanzees could have passed Plasmodium falciparum to humans by a mosquito as RECENTLY as 5,000 years ago, but I still understand. It is also great that two new types of related malaria parasites were identified because we can find a vaccine that will take care of them, too.
I did not realize that gorillas could get the disease too. I is amazing to me how many living things have been killed by it.
This article was a little confusing. They said first that finding the new type of malaria was terrible but then they said it was helpful and they could find a vaccine by studying it. That was weird!
I really like this article. Not only is it interesting, but it really show how we are related.
I agree with Ava, the article is a little hippocritical (sp?). Anyways, I personally believe that this might actually hinder us. Like they said, what if the other primates reinfect us?
That's kind of sad. I mean, these innocent chimps and gorillas carrying malaria? Since certain types of gorillas are endangered species, I hope that they won't test out certain medications/vaccines on them, because it could kill them. It is a good thing that we now know about 2 new malaria related diseases, so we can help cure it.
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