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Malaria Vaccine from Mosquito Saliva

September 8, 2011 by Malaria.com

One of the more promising avenues of creating a vaccine for malaria involves going inside mosquitoes’ bodies — typically the source of the disease’s spread — to develop the key component of the vaccine.

Research published online in the journal Science today shows the barriers and future direction for that vaccine. A clinical trial of such a vaccine showed that it was safe, but that it didn’t confer immunity to enough of the study participants.

Read more, via My Health News Daily.

Filed Under: Malaria News Tagged With: malaria research, Malaria Vaccine, Mosquito Saliva

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