Almost two to three million people die of malaria every year but yet there is no vaccine for the illness.
In the Journal Nature Medicine, Oxford University scientists who were the part of an International team reported that Malaria’s virus-based shot showed good results in mice.
It is expected that the initial small-scale human safety trials of the vaccine will be started next year.
Some other researchers are also working to develop an effective malaria vaccine while many other vaccines are in trials in humans in many malaria-stricken countries.
According to Oxford scientists the new vaccine may prove more effective against the severe stage of the illness known as “blood stage”. In this stage numbers of parasite sharply increase in the bloodstream and cause death.
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