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Malaria Vaccine Nearing Reality

Posted by samzenpus on from the a-spoonful-of-sugar dept.

colin_faber writes "Right on the heels of the Bill Gates BusinessWeek article discussing the importance of disease prevention and cure over technological deployment is news from CNN that U.S. researchers may have a viable vaccine for malaria. If true, this could change the lives of up to 3.3 billion people living in malaria danger zones and allow us to do away with this disease, which kills hundreds of thousands of people."

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  1. Re:Do Away With This Disease? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I thought the whole point of Bill Gates' foundation's attempts to find a vaccine for Malaria was to:

    1. create a vaccine
    2. make lots of it for cheap
    3. find ways to distribute it everywhere as cheap as possible
    4. help distribute it everywhere

    Seems to me that if they keep throwing money at the problems (refrigeration, handling) they will eventually succeed.