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Evening Standard
Ella Pickover

Scientists to give people malaria to study long-term effects

Five healthy people will be bitten by infected mosquitoes at a lab in the Netherlands (Alamy/PA) -

People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects.

Plasmodium vivax is a type of malaria that can remain dormant in the liver.

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