Neat News 2017-52 (added 2017-02-21)
Step towards Vaccine against Malaria
© image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear
| Malaria is a global killer and one of the most dangerous infectious diseases. Unfortunately there is no vaccination against it, but as reported there is now some progress towards a vaccination against malaria. In the new approach the patient receives non-weakened malaria pathogens plus the anti-malaria drug chloroquin. This was done in varying concentrations in a group of 67 subjects. The initial results are promising |
