I don’t normally post stuff like this but this is pretty amazing. Malaria has killed hundreds of thousands of people. Wiping it out would mean only aids and cancer stand in our way as a species. Oh and by the way, most of this research was funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation. You know, greedy, evil, wicked white capitalist people?
Via CNN:
(CNN) — U.S. researchers say they’ve successfully tested a vaccine for malaria on a small group of volunteers and hope to conduct large-scale tests soon.
The vaccine involves multiple, intravenous injections of a weakened form of the disease, scientists from the National Institutes of Health, the Navy, Army and other organizations reported Thursday. Though the results were promising, more extensive field testing will be required, the researchers wrote.
The mosquito-borne tropical disease kills about 1 million people a year and sickens more than 200 million. Dr. William Schaffner, head of the preventive medicine department at Vanderbilt University’s medical school, called the results “a scientific advance” — but it may be eight to 10 years before the vaccine can be scientifically proven, approved and distributed.