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Malaria vaccine sees first major rollout in Africa

Apr 24, 2019

The world’s first malaria vaccine is seeing its first large-scale rollout in Malawi, according to BBC News. The program is aiming to vaccinate 120,000 children under the age of two, and the vaccine will soon se...

New approach holds “great promise” for effective malaria vaccine

Platonium

Jan 9, 2017

Health, Innovation, Science

A new study, published by a team from the Center for Infectious Disease Research in Seattle, suggests that disabling just three of the malaria parasite’s genes could create a safe and effective vaccine against ...

New malaria drug destroys malaria parasites in 48 hours

Charles Omedo

Dec 8, 2014

Health

Developed by researchers from St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital in the US, laboratory trials suggest that a new malaria drug tricks the immune system into destroying 80% of malaria parasites within 24 hou...

GSK applies for world’s first Malaria Vaccine for regulatory approval

Abby Smith

Jul 24, 2014

Health

Africa - The regulatory approval of world’s first vaccine against malaria in children has been applied by GlaxoSmithKline (NASDAQ:GSK) on Thursday. This will be evaluated by European Medicine Agency (EMA) in as...

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