Having one set of the genes (only inheriting allele from both mother and father causes the disease) protects against malaria.

拥有单组该基因(仅当同时从母亲和父亲身上继承了等位基因时才发病)使人能够抵御疟疾。

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This, combined with the often feeble medical resources of malaria-stricken countries, can lead to such serous complications that the mother dies during delivery.

因此，遭受疟疾国家的医疗资源常常也很薄弱，这样就造成了孕妇在分娩过程中死亡的严重后果。

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Somewhere today, in Nigeria, a child is polio-free, a mother is nursing a healthy baby, a family is free of malaria because a business or a civil society group decided to devote attention and resources to their health.

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"Our findings show that co-infection with placental malaria and HIV during pregnancy significantly increases the risk of HIV transmission from mother to newborn, " said Dr Brahmbhatt.

BBC: NEWS | Health | Malaria increases baby's HIV risk