New hope for malaria


  • Health
  • Sunday, 09 Jun 2013

With drug resistance towards malarial treatments growing, the medical community is increasingly looking towards vaccines to halt the spread of this mosquito-borne disease.

A new Japanese malaria vaccine cuts infections ‘by 72%’.       

A TEAM of Japanese researchers say they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of malaria developing in humans by more than two-thirds.

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