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Researchers To Expand Malaria Vaccine Study After Initial Trial Yields Encouraging Results
Encouraged by early results of a study of an experimental malaria vaccine involving 45 children in Burkina Faso, researchers led by Pierre Druilhe at the Pasteur Institute in Paris are set to expand the clinical trial, resulting in a larger study involving 800 children in Mali, BBC News reports. The initial trial aimed "to test the safety of the vaccine but this follow up study found that children who received it had an incidence of the disease three to four times lower than children who did not," BBC writes.
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