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Modified Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing Malaria

By Guest PostSeptember 29, 2011Health, Scienceandrea amalfitano, barnett rosenberg, circumsporozoite protein, csp, deadly disease, eat 2, gene, gene adjuvants, global effort to prevent malaria infections, hiv, immune response, immune system stimulating gene, key role, malaria parasite, malaria vaccine, michigan state university, nathaniel j schuldt, protein, rea, us army, vaccine, virus, yasser a aldhamen

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Continuing a global effort to prevent malaria infections, Michigan State University researchers have created a new malaria vaccine – one that combines the use of a disabled cold virus with an immune system-stimulating gene – that appears to increase the immune response against the parasite that causes the deadly disease.

At the same time, the group led by Andrea Amalfitano of the College of Osteopathic Medicine also discovered another immune-system stimulating agent – created at MSU and which has been successful in improving immune responses in vaccines for diseases such as HIV – paradoxically made for a less effective malaria vaccine. (more…)

200,000 Malaria Deaths Preventable Annually, says U of T Researcher

*Deaths in India vastly underestimated*

Professor Prabhat Jha of medicine and an international team of researchers from India, Canada and the U.K. say their new studty shows the number of premature deaths from malaria in India has been vastly underestimated.

The new study is of a nationally representative sample of all deaths from any cause in India, asking family members to describe the fatal illness. Its results show that malaria accounts for about 200,000 (2 lakh) premature deaths before age 70 in India (including 80,000 children below age 15 and 120,000 adults). Previous estimates of malaria deaths were less than 10 per cent of this new figure. (more…)

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Modified Vaccine Shows Promise in Preventing Malaria

200,000 Malaria Deaths Preventable Annually, says U of T Researcher