For example, Turing Pharmaceuticals' drug Daraprim, used to treat the parasitic infection toxoplasmosis that affects roughly 200,000 people a year, entered the market in 1953.
But unlike viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasitic infections which contain DNA or RNA, Prions don't, meaning they can't be killed with radiation or heat.
但与含有 DNA 或 RNA 的病毒、细菌、真菌或寄生感染同,朊病毒含有 DNA 或 RNA,这意味着它们能被辐射或热量杀死。
They are seeing an increase in infections from the plasmodium vivax parasite. An estimated 2.5 billion people live in areas where plasmodium vivax is common.