Firing new shots in the malaria war, a vaccine still in the testing stage is now a step closer to becoming a public health reality. Two new reports, from Kenya and Tanzania, show that the vaccine halves a child’s risk of getting malaria, setting the stage for an even larger trial that researchers hope will provide the definitive evidence needed for approval of what would be the first vaccine for the disease.
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