Why is it difficult to develop a vaccine for malaria?

  1. it is a bacterium with a cell wall
  2. there is no immune response at all
  3. it is a virus
  4. Plasmodium changes its antigens and lives inside cells
Answer

D) Plasmodium changes its antigens and lives inside cells

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