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We’re getting closer to a malaria vaccine

24 Friday Jan 2014

Posted by sedeer in Humans, Immunology

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biology, Education, Health, Human, immunity, malaria, mosquito, Popular science, science, Science communication, vaccination, vaccine

Malaria parasite (photo courtesy Wikipedia)Malaria hardly needs an introduction. With over 200 million people infected, it takes the life of an African child every minute. Although we have drugs to help treat the disease, there isn’t an effective vaccine available, partly due to the malaria pathogen’s variability. Now, a research collaboration between labs in the US and Australia has brought a step closer to that goal by figuring out how to produce a vaccine which works against many different strains. Continue reading →

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