{"id":163071,"date":"2015-10-28T15:10:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=163071"},"modified":"2015-10-28T15:50:27","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T15:50:27","slug":"nobel-winning-drug-tackles-malaria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/nobel-winning-drug-tackles-malaria\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel-winning drug ‘tackles malaria’"},"content":{"rendered":"
A parasitic-worm-killing drug, whose discovery won the Nobel prize, may also cut cases of malaria, say researchers.<\/p>\n
Early data coming out of trials of ivermectin in Burkina Faso suggest it leads to 16% fewer cases of childhood malaria.<\/p>\n
Scientists at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene’s conference, said the drug was toxic to blood-drinking mosquitoes.<\/p>\n
They said their findings were pretty exciting, but still at an early stage.<\/p>\n
Ivermectin is already used to kill parasitic worms, which affect a third of the world’s population and cause illnesses including river blindness and lymphatic filariasis.<\/p>\n
Its discovery won this year’s Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.<\/p>\n