Developing A New Malaria Vaccine!

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Sources:
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/faqs.html
https://www.cdc.gov/malaria/about/biology/
http://hummingbirds.ucdavis.edu/hummingbird_information/interesting_facts.cfm
http://www.malariavaccine.org/files/MVI-GSK-FAQ-FINAL-web.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/51215582_Superior_Antimalarial_Immunity_after_Vaccination_with_Late_Liver_Stage-Arresting_Genetically_Attenuated_Parasites
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/9/371/eaad9099
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/promising-malaria-vaccine-disables-key-parasite-genes
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/cp-hsm122916.php
http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31394-X

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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Malaria.jpg
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