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Sheu, a biochemistry concentrator from Dunwoody, Ga., will be going to Oxford to research malaria and the human response to the disease. He said that he hopes to coming up with a vaccine which will help millions.
"There's no effective vaccine for malaria yet," Sheu said. "[But] it affects 500 million a year and kills 3 million a year. It's really tremendous compared to anything else."
A new oral vaccine aimed at cutting down salmonella infections from eggs and poultry could be available for farmers by early next year.
Developed by biologist Roy Curtiss III of Washington University in St. Louis, the vaccine is a weakened form of salmonella that allows the bird's defenses to fight off infections.
VACCINE VICTORY A meningitis vaccine has proved so successful that the disease has been virtually wiped out among kids. So far this year, only 175 cases of pediatric meningitis have occurred, compared with about 18,000 a year in the 1980s.