World's 1st malaria vaccine recommended by WHO

[Judi Lynn]

By Yasemin Saplakoglu about 2 hours ago

More than 260,000 children under age 5 die each year from malaria.


The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended the widespread use of a malaria vaccine among children in Africa and other areas of high malaria transmission — a breakthrough in the long fight against the deadly disease.

Malaria is a parasite-caused disease that's been around for thousands of years and is transmitted primarily via mosquito bites. It kills more than 400,000 people around the world each year, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa. More than 260,000 children under age 5 die each year from malaria.

The road to an effective malaria vaccine has been long, with many vaccines showing only modest efficacy, Live Science previously reported. The vaccine WHO has endorsed — called RTS, S, or Mosquirix — is more than 30 years in the making and works to prime the immune system against Plasmodium falciparum — the deadliest malaria parasite and the most common one in Africa.

It is the first vaccine to complete large-scale clinical trials and show that it can significantly reduce malaria, including life-threatening malaria, in young children in Africa, according to the WHO. It is also the first vaccine developed against any disease caused by a parasite, according to The New York Times.

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https://www.livescience.com/worlds-first-malaria-vaccine-recommended-who?utm_source=notification

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1. Yay! This is so significant!

And I know Pres. Carter must be so pleased & relieved." given his fight against malaria:
"The Carter Center's Malaria Control Program was active from 2007-2014 and supported the national programs in Nigeria and Ethiopia."