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Malaria: The Long-Awaited Vaccine

SERIES TITLE: 30 minutes

Colombian biochemist Manuel Patarroyo created the first chemically-made anti-malaria vaccine, a revolutionary discovery in the worldwide struggle to control the spread of malaria. But the discovery was received with certain reticence by the international scientific community.