Intravenous vaccine for malaria offers robust protection in small clinical trial
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Almost half the world’s population lives in areas where malaria infection is a risk, yet no licensed vaccines exist to prevent this red blood cell parasite from causing almost half a million deaths each year. However, in a study published online today in Science, researchers report on a new vaccine that provided remarkable protection against Plasmodium falciparum, considered the deadliest of the four malaria strains. Read more