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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International Drug Discovery Institute (IDDI), a new non-profit international institute came in to the existence recently with an announcement of a group of leading drug researchers. This newly established international institute aims to fight certain global issues concerning “Tuberculosis (TB), Malaria, and HIV/AIDS”. The institute plans to attract many of the extremely talented professionals, scientists, activists, and drug researchers from the established and renowned research laboratories around the world.

People living in the developing countries are facing complete exposure to the epidemic diseases like ‘Tuberculosis (TB)’, ‘Malaria’, and ‘HIV/AIDS’. There are no new or affordable cures available to these large populations. There exists a big gap in the commercial drug development sector and the need of cures. Founders of the ‘International Drug Discovery Institute (IDDI)’ are optimistic to fill this gap with their sincere efforts.

The IDDI expects to develop some innovative concepts to deal with the problem. New strategies and models would help crossing the potential barriers hampering the process of developing new therapeutic formulations aiming to fight and cure diseases like malaria and tuberculosis.

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