Researchers develop broad-spectrum malaria vaccine

https://news.griffith.edu.au/2021/10/21/researchers-develop-broad-spectrum-malaria-vaccine/

"a major breakthrough towards the delivery of an efficient malaria vaccine... incorporates killed blood-stage malaria parasites... can be freeze-dried making it suitable for deployment into malaria-endemic countries... made possible by replacing the red cell membrane that normally surrounds the parasite with a synthetic lipid-based membrane... add saline and inject into a person...  human clinical trials to evaluate this vaccine in 2022"

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