Nobel medicine for parasitic diseases

Red blood cells infected with malaria parasites Plasmodium sp. (science photo library)

Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine given to two breakthroughs in the work-related diseases caused by parasites.


William C. Campbell and Satoshi Omura develop new drugs to treat infections caused by parasitic roundworms.

Both shared the Nobel with Tu Youyou, who is credited with overcoming malaria treatment-related findings, the BBC Michelle Roberts.

Nobel declared his third attempt Council has changed the lives of hundreds of millions of people affected by these diseases.

Mosquito-borne disease malaria has killed over 450,000 people every year in the world and billions of others at risk of infection.

Parasitic worms affect a third of the world's population and causes a number of diseases, including type of blindness River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis or or worms in the lymphatic system.

After decades with limited progress, the discovery of two new drugs - Avermectin for River Blindness and Lymphatic Filariasis, as well as the Artemisinin for malaria - are thought to have led to the change of major.

(bbcindonesia)