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Malaria Vaccine Worsens Epidemic

  • June 29, 2004

It is bad enough that malaria kills 2 million to 3 million people every year, or one African child every 30 seconds, but it appears that implementing a malaria vaccine will actually increase the resistance of the malaria parasite, further worsening the epidemic. Researchers showed that parasites that moved from one vaccinated animal to another evolved into nastier strains than those grown in non-vaccinated animals. Rather than focusing on expensive vaccines that worsen the epidemic...