Malaria vaccine protects adults for up to a year, new study finds

Monday, May 9, 2016 - 12:30 in Health & Medicine

Malaria infects hundreds of millions of people every year, and kills more than half a million, most of them under the age of 5 years. There is no vaccine. But now, a new study has found that an experimental malaria vaccine protected adults from infection for more than a year.

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