The long road to a new malaria vaccine, told by the scientists behind the breakthrough – podcast

In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we find out why it’s been so hard to find a malaria vaccine – and hear from the scientists behind the new breakthrough.

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National Institute of Malaria Research, GSK, Music, National Emergency Training Center, University, RSS, R21, Malaria, World Health Organization, Jenner Institute, Serum Institute of India, Child, Blood, Institute, Parasitism, Liver, WHO, World, Research, Lancet, III, Imperial College London, RTS, University of Bamako, Vaccine, Pharmaceutical industry
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  • In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we find out why it’s been so hard to find a malaria vaccine – and hear from the scientists behind the new breakthrough.
  • In 2021, 619,000 people died from malaria, the majority of them children.
  • The search for a vaccine has been underway for decades, but it’s particularly difficult due to the complexity of the malaria parasite.
  • “It begins with a mosquito bite,” says Faith Osier, co-director of the Institute of Infection at Imperial College London.
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