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World Service,16 Mar 2000,23 mins

Hope for a Leishmaniasis Vaccine

Science In Action

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Hope for a vaccine against the parasitic infection leishmaniasis that affects 12 million people in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Life found in the form of microbes deep in the earth of Mexico. A treatment for herpes could be found in red algae growing in the Negev Desert. Plus, progress on several important diseases of humans and sheep.

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