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Progress being made towards a vaccine for schistosomiasis.
2003 AUG 6 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Progress is being made towards a vaccine for schistosomiasis.
"Schistosomiasis continues to be a significant health problem, especially in Africa. While the recent World Health Assembly resolution to apply mass drug treatment of school age children in endemic areas is a very promising development, a preferable long-term solution would be provided by a protective vaccine," an investigator in the United States reports.
"Encouragingly, one vaccine, Bilhvax, is in phase II trials," said Edward J. Pearce at the University of Pennsylvania. "However, there is a danger that momentum towards the goal of developing a vaccine against schistosomiasis is dissipating. This article reviews the current situation in this ...
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