Vaccine Developed toward Disfiguring and Deadly Parasitic Infection

For decades researchers have continually tried to develop vaccines toward parasitic organisms, to no avail. Since parasites are eukaryotic organisms, developing any treatment against them is problematic due to their complexity and evolutionary similarities to the host. However now, scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a unique, new experimental vaccine against the second deadliest parasite in the world—topped only by malaria— Leishmania . Findings from the n