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Malaria vaccine results face scrutiny

Nature volume 478, pages 439–440 (2011)Cite this article

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A Correction to this article was published on 02 November 2011

Experts question early release of incomplete trial data.

"Malaria vaccine could save millions of children's lives"; "World's first malaria vaccine works in major trial"; "Malaria vaccine almost here". To judge from last week's headlines, scientists had made a big breakthrough in the long campaign to create a malaria vaccine, proving its effectiveness with interim results from a huge phase III clinical trial in Africa1.

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