Introduction Babesia is a malaria-like organism that infects red blood cells.  When you read things like this then go research what malaria is so that you can have a better understanding of the disease.  Remedies that treat malaria can often be used for malaria-like organisms as well.  Babesia is a parasite and it must infect anything with red blood cells to survive. Scientists believe Babesia microti is the most common version infecting humans but they have identified over twenty different…