Vaccine hope for hookworm sufferers

If you had a colony of parasites living in your gut and siphoning off your blood, you might not even know. Many of the hundreds of millions of people suffering from hookworm disease are completely unaware of their wriggly lodgers, which can seriously damage their health. EU-funded researchers are developing a vaccine to keep the tiny trespassers at bay.

 

With pleasure we like to inform you that the story on the HOOCVAC project has been published on the Horizon 2020 website. Read the full story on the website.