A spanish collaboration
Friday, October 9, 2009 @ 6:43 PM
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"Tanzania-Lake Manyara", by Marc Veraart, in flickr.
Yesterday morning, on the radio, the Doctor Manuel Elkin Patarroyo (Director of the Foundation of Inmunology of Colombia) spoke.He was here, in Spain, to tell about his discovery of the Vaccine against the Malaria (an illness which is killing some millions persons, in several countries).The Malaria is transmited by the mosquito Anopheles gambiae.
In 1994, the Dr. Patarroyo got the "Prize Prince of Asturias of Scientific and Technical Research", thanks to the promise of this discovery.
In 1999, the OMS tried the vaccine in Gambia, Tanzania and Thailand, with partialy effective results.
Today, in 2009, Patarroyo and his team have improved that vaccine (from 1999), successfully on 90% or 95%.They have had the support --technical and economic-- from the University of the Basque Country.