Furthermore, a recent report suggested that monocytes from malaria-exposed Malian adults produced lower levels of inflammatory cytokines IL-1ß, IL-6, and TNFα in response to Plasmodium falciparum-infected red blood cells (Pf-iRBC) compared with young Malian children (12), suggesting that modified myeloid cell responses may facilitate disease tolerance. Here, IL6 is linked to malaria.