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Scientists who won the Nobel Prize for medicine for discovering a drug that kills parasitic worms have found that the drug may also be effective in combating mosquito-borne Malaria. Ivermectin is already used to kill parasitic worms, which affect a third of the world's population. The 麻豆约拍's Health Editor James Gallagher spoke to Newsday about the discovery.

(Photo: Malaria is caused by a parasite called plasmodium which is carried by female mosquitoes. Credit: CDC)