Vaccine Research Shows Vigilance Needed against Evolution of More-Virulent Malaria (IMAGE)

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Vaccine Research Shows Vigilance Needed against Evolution of More-Virulent Malaria

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The image shows red blood cells, some of which are infected with ring-stage malaria parasites. Parasites invade, replicate and rupture from red blood cells multiple times during an infection.

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Dr. Mae Melvin/US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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