Vaccine Development

Researcher Describes Progress on Malaria Vaccine

Published in Vaccine Weekly, December 28th, 1998

Researchers in the United States are making progress on a vaccine against malaria, which kills millions of people in the developing world, a scientist from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said.

"We are very excited about the vaccine," said Dr. Altaf A. Lal during a visit to the northern Indian town of Lucknow, were he once studied, to attend an international conference on infectious diseases. "The laboratory tests have been very successful and we are sure that the tests on monkeys will also be successful," Lal said.

Tests on monkeys were to begin during February or March 1999, and clinical trials would follow, he said. Lal...

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