Friday, May 23, 2014

Malaria vaccine could be ready in TWO YEARS - and would save 620,000 lives a year | Mail Online

Malaria vaccine could be ready in TWO YEARS - and would save 620,000 lives a year | Mail Online: Scientists have created a ‘revolutionary’ vaccine that can protect against lethal strains of malaria and save hundreds of thousands of lives year.

The vaccine, been developed from Tanzanian children naturally resistant to the disease, works by imprisoning the Malaria-causing parasites inside the red blood cells they infect.

The researchers said that an experimental vaccine based on this idea protected mice in five trials and will be tested on lab monkeys beginning in the next four to six weeks.

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