Recent live attenuated malaria vaccination trials in humans and non-human primates as well as work in mice clearly demonstrate the requirement for protection of large quantities of IFN-γ producing CD8, CD4, and γδ T cells as well as IFN-γ secreting NK and NKT cells in the liver (Epstein et al., 2011; Teirlinck et al., 2011; Seder et al., 2013). The gene discussed is CD8A; the disease is malaria.