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Al Jazeera Examines Candidate Malaria Vaccine, Other Ongoing Efforts To Thwart The Disease
Al Jazeera reports on the candidate malaria vaccine known as RTS,S, which "has been heralded as one of the Top 10 Scientific Breakthroughs of 2011 by Time and Science magazines, Doctors Without Borders and the Lancet." The news service recaps the history of the vaccine's development, outlines a number of existing prevention strategies and details ongoing efforts in the global fight against malaria (Dalal, 1/11).
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