UM School of Medicine scientists find new malaria vaccine is safe and protective in children
Thursday, February 4, 2010 - 02:07
in Health & Medicine
A new vaccine to prevent the deadly malaria infection has shown promise to protect the most vulnerable patients -- young children -- against the disease, according to an international team of researchers led by the University of Maryland School of Medicine's Center for Vaccine Development (CVD) and the Malaria Research and Training Center at the University of Bamako in Mali, West Africa.