Potential Chagas vaccine candidate shows unprecedented efficacy

(University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston) Scientists are getting closer to a Chagas disease vaccine, something many believed impossible only 10 years ago. Research from the Sealy Center for Vaccine Development at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston has resulted in a safe vaccine candidate that is simple to produce and shows a greater than 90 percent protection rate against chronic infection in mice.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news