Did you know that Malaria disease was not attack human in long time ago

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Malaria has for many years been an infectious disease that haunts global citizens. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) in 2016 at least reported there are 216 million cases of malaria with the death toll reached about 445 people due to this disease.

But did you know, in fact this deadly disease according to researchers was not harmful to humans? Published in the journal Nature Microbiology researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute found the genetic evidences that malaria parasites have begun to evolve and attack humans since 50,000 years ago.

By examining seven types of parasite genetics, researchers saw that malaria has the ability to attack humans about 3-4 thousand years ago. The parasite evolved to infiltrate the red blood cells.

"Our study combines several events that culminate at a critical peak in which the parasites can not only enter but also live in humans, multiply, and propagate by mosquitoes" said study leader Dr. Matt Berriman as quoted by the BBC on Friday, May 25th 2018.

Initially these malaria parasites are known to infect only animals such as gorillas or chimpanzees. But as the human population gets more and more parasites begin to learn to find new host.

"Nowadays people think that malaria is a human disease, they forget that this is a zoonotic disease that broke through the boundaries between species 50,000 years ago and evolved to become one of the deadly diseases for humans" commented by Professor Janet Hemingway of the Liverpool School of Medicine Tropical Medicine.

 

 

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