<div class="description">
<p>From Capt. Judith Epstein, malaria vaccine development program, Naval<br>Medical Research Center.<br><br>"A highly effective vaccine to prevent malaria is a priority for Navy Medicine. The malaria vaccine research team at the Naval Medical Research Center, working with collaborators, has made progress on a vaccine to prevent malaria infection. We were involved in a human clinical trial of a novel malaria vaccine which was conducted at the Vaccine Research Center at NIAID (National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) in Bethesda, Md. We played a key role in designing the study and evaluating the effectiveness of the vaccine. Three weeks after the volunteers were given the vaccine, they were exposed to the bites of five mosquitoes carrying infectious Plasmodium falciparum malaria. At the highest vaccine dose, six of nine volunteers receiving four doses and six of six receiving five doses of the vaccine were protected against malaria infection."<br></p>
<br>Subjects: Navy Medicine Live Blog; Naval Medical Research Center; malaria; vaccination</div>
<div class="fn value">
U.S. Navy. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery</div>
<dl><dd><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.org/details/NavyMedicineContinuesWorkOnMalariaVaccineNavyMedicine">https://archive.org/details/NavyMedicineContinuesWorkOnMalariaVaccineNavyMedicine</a></dd>
<dd><a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="https://archive.org/download/NavyMedicineContinuesWorkOnMalariaVaccineNavyMedicine/Navy%20Medicine%20Continues%20Work%20on%20Malaria%20Vaccine%C2%A0_%C2%A0Navy%20Medicine.pdf">https://archive.org/download/NavyMedicineContinuesWorkOnMalariaVaccineNavyMedicine/Navy%20Medicine%20Continues%20Work%20on%20Malaria%20Vaccine%C2%A0_%C2%A0Navy%20Medicine.pdf</a></dd></dl>