A VACCINE against malaria would save hundreds of thousands of lives each year. Now it seems we’re much closer to finding one.
Infants in Mozambique who had been injected with the experimental vaccine RTS,S/AS02 were 65 per cent less likely to be infected with Plasmodium falciparum – the mosquito-borne parasite that causes malaria – than infants injected with a control vaccine, according to the first major trial of a malaria vaccine in 210 infants. Recipients were also 35 per cent less likely than controls to develop malaria itself.
“Infants injected with the malaria vaccine were 65 per cent less likely to be infected”…
