Have you ever heard of Malaria? Well according to MNT it is "Malaria is a life-threatening blood disease caused by a parasite that is transmitted to humans by the Anopheles mosquito." The disease has killed over 660,000 people each year alone. For many years man has been on the losing side on the fight on Malaria, but just recent it was discovered that we just might have the upper hand!
Just recently scientist have created the very first vaccine for this terrible disease. The vaccine is to be called PfSPZ. The SPZ stands for sporozoites, which is (according to Google) the Malaria organism, and when it is weakend it becomes Pf (Plamodium falciparum).
https://www.google.com/#q=what+is+sporozoites
http://news.sky.com/story/1151476/malaria-vaccine-could-be-widespread-by-2015
http://gizmodo.com/scientists-have-created-a-malaria-vaccine-thats-100-e-1069393748
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