Although there are some 125 million pregnancies
worldwide at risk of malaria infection every year,
little was known about the effect maternal malaria
may have on the neurodevelopment of the unborn
child.
What this new research - published in PLOS
Pathogens by a team from the University of
Toronto, Canada - shows is that given how the
environment in the uterus profoundly impacts on the
development of a person, malaria in pregnancy
does lead to neurocognitive impairment of offspring.