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malaria inflicts one of the heaviest global health burdens, with a global incidence of 300–660 million cases every year, of which 80 million cases are in India alone (Robert W. Snow et al. 2005; Eline Korenromp 2005). According to recent estimates, one-third of the human popu-lation lives in areas exposed to the most severe form of malaria, caused by Plasmodium falci-parum (Snow et al. 2005). Malaria infection may develop into severe febrile episodes and lead to chronic effects and possibly death, and is par-ticularly dire among young children and preg