lessdazed comments on Link: 50% effective malaria vaccine developed - Less Wrong

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Comment author: lessdazed 21 October 2011 10:36:12AM 17 points [-]

Malaria needs people as part of its life cycle.

If 50% effective vaccine saturates an area, malaria could decline by more than 50% as fewer humans pass it to mosquitoes.