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posted by martyb on Saturday May 23 2015, @08:52PM   Printer-friendly
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.

 
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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:07AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 24 2015, @12:07AM (#187015)

    (who, I am sure, has bought a bunch of Pfizer stock in order to make Gates richer--the main reason his "charity" exists)

    Do you have any actual evidence to substantiate this allegation you have just made?

    If you do not have evidence, and this is merely baseless speculation on your part, then the only responsible thing for you to do would be to admit this and to apologize to us, as well as to Mr. Gates.

  • (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_

    • (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.

      • (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.