RAT-style test to expose malaria that hides in your body

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A parasite rife in Asia infects patients with malaria but blood tests were sometimes unable to detect it – until pioneering work by local scientists.

can hide in the liver and remain undetected for months or even years – but now a world-first RAT-style diagnostic test will help in the global effort to eradicate the killer disease.

“I had no idea that I might be carrying parasites. That’s the challenge – you can be symptom free, you can have no parasites in the blood, but they can be dormant in the liver. In 2018, before COVID-19, there 407 malaria cases in Australia, including 88 in Victoria, 70 in NSW and 137 in Queensland, due to high numbers of people travelling between Queensland and Papua New Guinea.

 

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