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Big boost in fight against malaria
The Week Junior Science+Nature UK
|Issue 72
MORE ore than 10,000 children in Burkina Faso and Cameroon, in Africa, have received a free malaria vaccine.
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A vaccine is a type of medicine that trains the body to fight a disease using its own defences. Malaria is a dangerous disease spread by some types of mosquitos that kills over 600,000 people every year. African countries are the most affected by malaria, and children are
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