A biochemist and ardent mosquitophile, Shüné has been a medical scientist at the National Institute for Communicable Diseases for 14 years as well as a researcher with the Wits Research Institute for Malaria.
For thousands of years malaria was a mysterious illness affecting people across the globe. Even the name of the disease, ‘malaria’, derived from two Italian words meaning ‘bad air’, highl...
In 2017, malaria killed 435,000 people around the world. The vast majority of these deaths – 403,000 – were on the African continent. Most malaria cases are in sub-Saharan Africa.