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An AIDS therapy involving parasite injections was discredited. China is reviving it — for cancer

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Plasmodium vivax, the malaria-causing parasite used in the cancer clinical trial in China.

American surgeon Henry Heimlich is best known for inventing a way to rescue choking victims, but a quarter-century ago, he was vilified for promoting a fringe treatment for AIDS and Lyme disease. Called malarial therapy, it involved injecting patients with the malaria-causing parasite, supposedly to stimulate their immune systems. Read More

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