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posted by martyb on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:52PM   
from the giving-malaria-the-blues dept.

"gewg_" writes with news of a story appearing in The Register: Viagra makes it HARD for malaria, bug-boffins discover:

The Bill & Melinda Gates foundation has been buying Viagra, in a good cause: it seems to help beat one of the common malaria parasites, Plasmodium falciparum.

The mechanism is even analogous to Viagra's better-known effect: it makes infected red blood cells stiffer, which marks them down to be cleaned out by the spleen.

The full journal article is available at PLOS Pathogens: cAMP-Signalling Regulates Gametocyte-Infected Erythrocyte Deformability Required for Malaria Parasite Transmission.

• Gates' fanboys are so clueless Gates' fanboys are so clueless (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:11AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:11AM (#187029)

  2012 [google.com]
  2013 [google.com]
  2014 [google.com]

  If Gates was "giving away" money, his income would flatten a bit--rather than continue to grow geometrically.
  His "charity" invests in privatized prisons.
  All that Gates knows is making profit.
  His "philanthropy" is simply a tax dodge.

  -- gewg_

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• Re:Gates' fanboys are so clueless Re:Gates' fanboys are so clueless (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:41AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @01:41AM (#187040)

  Please provide the evidence, or apologize.

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  • Re:Gates' fanboys are so clueless (Score: 2) by rts008 on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:16AM

    by rts008 (3001) on Sunday May 24 2015, @05:16AM (#187079)

    Why should he apologize for his opinion? Because you don't like it? Get over yourself.

    It wasn't offered as fact, so no citation needed.

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