The Elusive Malaria Vaccine: Miracle or Mirage?  Irwin W.
Sherman  American Society for Microbiology 2009 A book review by
Danny Yee © 2011 The Elusive Malaria Vaccine is a detailed
history of more than a century of immunological research into
malaria, and specifically of the search for a malaria vaccine.
Sherman has been a participant in this research himself and
draws not only on the published research but on "behind the
scenes" knowledge of people and personalities, dead ends,
funding sources, scandals, and so forth.  The approach is only
roughly chronological, as it follows separate approaches to
finding a vaccine, tracing the work done by individual
researchers and research groups. So it can be hard to follow the
flow of events, with discoveries and ideas naturally cropping up
in different contexts.  The story begins with an account of the
hunt for an infectious agent, starring Laveran, Ross, and
Grassi. This led to the identification of the Plasmodium
parasite and its transmission by Anopheles mosquitoe