https://phys.org/news/2018-05-malaria-causing-parasite-liver-cells-survive.html

After building strength in numbers, the parasite leaves the liver and escapes into the blood stream, invading red blood cells and triggering the devastating disease.

The battle against malaria usually focuses on either helping people evade infected mosquitos or developing strategies to kill the parasite after it raids red blood cells. But a team of Duke University researchers wants to take a different tactic—disrupting the parasite while it lurks inside the liver.