INQUIRER.net: Early promise for malaria vaccine that mimics bug bites

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Early promise for malaria vaccine that mimics bug bites Aug 8th 2013, 22:41 WASHINGTON – A new kind of malaria vaccine that mimics the effects of mosquito bites has shown early promise by offering 100 percent protection to a dozen human volunteers, researchers said Thursday.   The experimental vaccine, called PfSPZ and produced by the Maryland-based company Sanaria, contains live malaria parasites collected through a painstaking process of dissecting the salivary glands of mosquitoes.   These immature parasites, known as sporozoites, are then weakened so they cannot cause illness and incorporated into a vaccine, which must be injected into a person's veins several times, with each shot about a month apart.   "When we started do... Keep on reading: Early promise for malaria vaccine that mimics bug bites Media files: malaria.jpg (image/jpeg)

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