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01/17/2005:

"Scots scientists boost malaria vaccine quest"

SCOTS scientists have made a major leap forward in the development of a malaria vaccine following the discovery of an antibody which protects against the disease.

Academics at Edinburgh University led a 17-month study of children in Ghana which found that those youngsters whose blood contained a particular antibody were far less likely to develop malaria than those who did not have the antibody.

Each year more than one million people die from malaria, many of them children under the age of five, with 90% of cases occurring in sub-Saharan Africa.

Full Article : news.scotsman.com