By triggering an attack on the parasite that causes malaria as it passes through the liver, a new vaccine intercepts the single-celled organism before it can enter the bloodstream and do damage.
The vaccine imparted partial or full protection to eight of nine chimpanzees that researchers infected with Plasmodium falciparum, the protozoan that causes the most lethal form of malaria in people, researchers in France report in the November Nature Medicine.
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