A new study throws light on the evolution of malaria and has found that the disease has its roots in birds.
Study published in the journal Molecular Phylogenetics and evolution revealed that malaria spread from birds to bats and on the other mammals.
Malaria which affected 214 million people world wide in 2015, is caused by parasites that are transmitted to people through the bites of infected female mosquitoes.
The most deadly malarial parasite, P. Falciparum is most prevalent in Africa, where malaria cases and deaths are heavily concentrated.
Co- author and Field Museum curator of mammals Bruce Patterson said that ” Malaria is notoriously adaptive to treatment, and its DNA holds a host of secrets about how it’s able to change evolve.”
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