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2004 MAR 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review recent developments in malaria vaccines in the journal Lancet.
"Large gains in the reduction of malaria mortality in the early 20th century were lost in subsequent decades. Malaria now kills two to three million people yearly. Implementation of malaria control technologies such as insecticide-treated bed nets and chemotherapy could reduce mortality substantially, but an effective malaria vaccine is also needed," scientists in the England and Australia report.
"Advances in vaccine technology and immunology are being used to develop malaria subunit vaccines," said Vasee S. Moorthy and collaborators at the University of Oxford in England and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research in Australia. "Novel approaches that might yield effective vaccines for other diseases are being evaluated first in malaria. We describe progress in malaria vaccine development in the past five years: reasons for cautious optimism, the type of ...