17 Jan Malaria vaccine a reality by 2015?
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NEW DELHI: A malaria vaccine could be a reality by 2015. The most promising candidate now showing that it can protect children for 15 months.
The efficacy of the vaccine, whose phase-II trial results have just been published in the British medical journal ” The Lancet“, reduced from 53% for eight months (during the phase-I study in 2008) to 46% when it protected for 15 months.