skyamsen wrote:
>> I stumbled across a sentence which said people with G6PDH deficiency has
> resistance to malaria and its infectious agent. How far is this true and
> why?
It's true from what I have read. The marlaria parasite causes the rbc
hemoglobin to oxidize to methemoglobin. The oxidized becomes rigid and
eventually hemolyze.
Hope that sums it up good enough for you.
