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Scientists find key to malaria growth



Musca Australis

the Southern Fly




The key to malaria's rampant growth has been explained by scientists. They say it is down to protein molecules called cyclins which cause cells to divide rapidly in the malaria parasite. The study, led by a team from the University of Nottingham, could lead to new treatments for malaria, the researchers said. Malaria is responsible for nearly half a million deaths a year. Nov.14 http://www.bbc.com/news/health-34808267








A new understanding about the way the malaria parasite spreads that could hopefully  lead to the elimination of this disease in the future has taken place just two days after a New Moon [19sc] that was placed in the mundane  6th house of public health at Nottingham.  Notice that the New Moon is one of the legs of a Yod with Jupiter and Uranus forming the other two legs. In her essay “Jupiter/Uranus: Bright Ideas and Breakthroughs,” [1]  Kelly Surtees writes:

When Jupiter and Uranus combine, anything is possible. Jupiter brings an expansive, open energy which complements Uranus’ inventive tone. As a pair, they have, throughout history, been linked to creative and scientific breakthroughs.

The specific nature of the scientific breakthrough is hidden in the star beta Musca [20sc] which is conjunct the New Moon[19sc].  About this constellation Anne Wright writes:

Musca domestica is the housefly, belonging to the family Muscoidea, the order Diptera (di-, two + ptera, wing). The word musca comes from the Indo-European root *mu- 'Gnat, fly, to buzz'. Derivatives: midge (from Old English mycg, midge, from Germanic *mugjo). Suffixed extended form *mus-ka-; mosquito (family Culicidae).

 This constellation should also represent the mosquito, a Spanish word, diminutive of mosca, 'fly', from Latin musca. Mosquitos are of the family Culicidae, the Latin word for mosquito (also called gnats) was culex:

“The gnat (culex) is named from 'sting' (aculeus) because it sucks blood, for it has a tube in its mouth, like a needle, with which it pierces the flesh so that it may drink the blood" [The Etymologies of Isidore of Seville, 6th century A.D., p.270.]

Malaria ('bad air') comes from mosquitos, was formerly called ague.


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