More Trials of First Malaria Vaccine Needed

A World Health Organization advisory group recommends continued clinical trials of a promising malaria vaccine to test its efficacy and safety.  Separately, the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization or SAGE is calling for the replacement of the current oral polio vaccine with another.   More than one million people die of malaria each year; the vast majority are children in Africa.  That is why the prospect of a vaccine to end the deadly toll is so...

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