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Malaria Vaccine a Breakthrough Success with 77 Percent Efficacy

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It is the world’s first and only licensed malaria vaccine and also the first licensed for use against a human parasitic disease of any kind. Children have been the focus of malaria vaccine and drug trials because over 90 percent of deaths attributable to malaria are in African children under the age of five.