'Needle-free' intervention as natural vaccine against malaria
Wednesday, August 11, 2010 - 09:56
in Health & Medicine
A study published in the journal Science Translational Medicine proposes that preventative treatment with affordable and safe antibiotics in people living in areas with intense malaria transmission has the potential to act as a 'needle-free' natural vaccine against malaria and may likely provide an additional valuable tool for controlling and/or eliminating malaria in resource-poor settings.