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Published online 9 July 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030707-4

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Two thousand kids to get experimental malaria jab

Largest ever test of malaria vaccine to begin in Africa.

The most advanced test of a vaccine against malaria ever conducted in children begins in Mozambique next week.

The hope is that immunization will become a primary weapon in the fight against malaria, which kills 1 million Africans each year, most of them toddlers and babies.

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