malaria

Hundreds of millions of people contract the parasite malaria every year; it kills more than 800,000 people annually.

The disease is spread by mosquitoes, and scientists at Johns Hopkins have made a discovery that could stop that spread: they’ve figured out how to tweak the bugs’ immune systems so that mosquitoes can fight it off.

The difference that a bacteria can make in the fight against malaria, matters grammatical and sartorial with copy editor and Baltimore Sun veteran John McIntyre and Maryland Morning Theater Critic J. Wynn Rousuck reviews a production of George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, which is currently playing at Baltimore’s Everyman Theater.