Malaria vaccine within sight…

But don’t get your hopes up too much, there is still a lot of work to do:

The challenge faced by the medical and scientific community stems partly from the nature of the causative parasite which is unlike other organisms that cause infectious diseases. ‘’Until now, we don’t have a vaccine against parasites; only against bacteria and viruses,” Morel said. ‘’The malaria parasite is very smart.”

By the way, the blood parasite Plasmodium which is spread by mosquitoes, is very, very preventable & treatable

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