EXPLORING BENEFITS
We first learned of the acidified sodium chlorite treatment discovery in the fall of 2006. That sodium chlorite or chlorine dioxide could kill parasites in vivo seemed immediately reasonable to us at the onset. It is well known that many disease causing organisms are sensitive to oxidants. Various compounds classifiable as oxides of chlorine such as sodium hypochlorite and chlorine dioxide are already widely used as disinfectants. What is novel and exciting here is that the treatment technique seems:

If this treatment continues to prove effective, it could be used to help rid the world of one of the most devasting of all known plagues. [3a-3e]
Millions of people suffer from malaria year round. One to three million die from malaria every year; most of these are children. This motivated us to learn all we could about the chemistry of the oxides of chlorine. [4a-4hh] We wanted to understand their probable mechanisms of toxicity towards the causative agents of malaria (Plasmodium species), therefore we checked available literature pertaining to issues of safety or risk in human use.