Vaccine alternative protects mice against malaria
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 - 05:02
in Health & Medicine
Injecting a vaccine-like compound into mice was effective in protecting them from malaria, a study suggests. The findings suggest a potential new path toward the elusive goal of malaria immunization. Malaria is one of the world's deadliest infectious diseases, killing as many as 1 million people per year, the majority of them children in Africa.