IT’S been a bad week for Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite that causes malaria, with promising results from two trials of the .
Vaccinated infants in Kenya and Tanzania more than halved their risk of developing malaria infections (The New England Journal of Medicine, and ).
“Vaccinated infants more than halved their risk of developing malaria”
“If these results were repeated in a much larger trial, it would almost certainly lead to approval of the world’s first vaccine against malaria,” says Philip Bejon of the University of Oxford and the lead researcher in one of the trials.…
