Japanese researchers: New vaccine reduces malaria infection by 72 percent

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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/31/japanese-researchers-new-vaccine-reduces-malaria-infection-by-72-percent/



A team of Japanese researchers say they have developed a vaccine that cuts the risk of malaria developing in humans by more than two-thirds.

The disease, which is carried by parasite-bearing mosquitoes, kills around 650,000 people each year, mostly African children under five, according to the UN’s World Health Organisation (WHO).

While there are a number of preventative medicines already in use, scientists say drug-resistance is growing.

Researchers from Osaka University have developed a dry powder vaccine, called BK-SE36, from a genetically-modified protein found inside the parasite, which they mixed with aluminum hydroxyl gel.

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1. Oh my goodness- I hope it gets works out and gets commercialized.

What a horrendous disease malaria is, and the preventative medicines are almost impossible to take long term. What nightmares they give people.

One of my fellow PCV's committed suicide after nearly 2 years of the nightmares. I finally stopped taking the medications after a year- and this volunteer's death- as the nightmares were making me so ill....Lots of people simply cannot take those medications, and most in malaria's harm's way do not have the money to take the drugs anyway.