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malaria effects to people :: Article Creator Scientists To Give People Malaria To Study Long-term Effects People are to be sent from Oxford to the Netherlands to be deliberately infected with a form of malaria so scientists can study its effects. Plasmodium vivax is a type of malaria that can remain dormant in the liver. It can reactivate months or even years after a person was first infected, causing relapsing infections. This could transform how we combat this challenging disease Scientists from the Oxford Vaccine Group want to understand more about this relapsing infection in the months after a person is initially infected through the bite of a mosquito. In order to do so, they are sending five healthy people to be bitten by infected mosquitoes at a lab in the Netherlands. They will then return to Oxford where they can be monitored before being treated to stop the potential relapses. Human challenge studies involve researchers deliber...