A mystery illness found in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo has been officially identified as a severe form of malaria. The disease has sickened nearly 600 people, mostly children ...

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Doctors noticed that patients who had sickle cell anemia, a serious hereditary blood disease, were more likely to survive malaria, a disease which kills some 1.2 million people every year.

Scientists from Oxford want to investigate a type of malaria that can remain dormant in the liver. Most of those infected have tested positive for malaria but other factors could still be at play.