In the summer of 1995, Joel Weinstock got stuck on a plane that wasn’t going anywhere. A thunderstorm raged over […]
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Traitors or saviors? Parasite-tolerant cells
Elinor Riley from the London school of hygiene and tropical medicine is studying the immune response to malaria in sub-Saharan […]
Development of Autoimmunity in the Absence of a Threat
In the case of age-related diseases, such as heart disease or dementia, it can be argued that in the past […]
If you rely on pathogens, you can fall after they leave
In the mid-60s, British scientist Brian Greenwood came to Ibadan, Nigeria, hoping to gain experience in the infectious environment, which […]
Welcome to the twentieth century: Sardinia does the cleaning
Unlike most of Western Europe, where the prevalence of infectious diseases has been gradually decreasing since the nineteenth century, the […]
How long has a person lived on the island and how long has malaria been there?
About 2.6 million years ago, when the ancestors of Homo habilis (skilled man) began to make stone tools by chipping, […]
Disaster Caused by Deforestation and Irrigation
A person is infected with malaria by four parasites from the genus of Plasmodium: Plasmodium vivax (pathogen of three-day malaria), […]
The Island of Autoimmunity
Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution. On a windy spring day in Sardinia, I wander […]
The first violation of the immune system: hay fever
In March, 1819, a physician named John Bostock presented to the Medical and surgical society of London a description of […]
Cholera epidemic leads to reforms
In 1817, the world learned of a new disease, cholera-an acute gastrointestinal disease that kills a person in one day. […]