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Procedure feared to ‘suck brain from skull’ safe for malaria patients

October 29, 2016 by

An American researcher is challenging a widely held African belief that a spinal tap, a procedure safely used to treat other diseases, could suck the brain from the base of the skull and cause death in malaria patients.

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