AIDS Drug Found to Prevent Malaria
From Times Wire Reports
A drug being used to fight infections associated with AIDS can prevent malaria, especially when teamed with another malaria drug, researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore said. Writing in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Dr. Theresa Shapiro and colleagues at Johns Hopkins said Glaxo-Wellcome’s Malarone, known generically as atovaquone, was 100% effective in keeping volunteers from developing malaria when bitten by mosquitoes carrying Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for fatal forms of malaria. When Malarone is paired with an older malaria-fighting drug, it should work even better, she said.
