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Published online 3 October 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news021001-6
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A round up of the history and biology of the malaria parasite.
The first confirmed human case of malaria dates from 450 AD. It was diagnosed last year when British researchers recovered traces of the malaria parasite's DNA from a children's cemetery just outside Rome.
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