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    A cheap malaria vaccine that can be produced on a massive scale has been recommended for use by the World Health Organization (WHO).


    The vaccine has been developed by the University of Oxford and is only the second malaria vaccine to be developed.

    Malaria kills mostly babies and infants, and has been one of the biggest scourges on humanity.

    There are already agreements in place to manufacture more than 100 million doses a year.

    It has taken more than a century of scientific effort to develop effective vaccines against malaria.

    The disease is caused by a complex parasite, which is spread by the bite of blood-sucking mosquitoes. It is far more sophisticated than a virus as it hides from our immune system by constantly shape-shifting inside the human body.

    That makes it hard to build up immunity naturally through catching malaria, and difficult to develop a vaccine against it.

    It is almost two years to the day since the first vaccine - called RTS,S and developed by GSK - was backed by the WHO.

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    Deals are in place to make 100 million doses of the vaccine each year to fight the complex disease.


    Crazy!

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  • #2
    I wonder how many people would think constantly taking anti malarial treatment drug hydroxy chloroquine as some kind of alternative to the covid vaccines would be perfectly rational but would balk at getting the new anti malarial vaccine because it "hasn't been tested enough" even if they were going to be someplace where malaria is endemic?

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    • #3
      Thanks to global warming almost all of us will need this vaccine.
      “It is no use trying to 'see through' first principles. If you see through everything, then everything is transparent. But a wholly transparent world is an invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to see.”

      ― C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man

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      • #4
        not if the parasite has a limited range... dont know if Alaskans can get malaria eg

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        • N35t0r
          N35t0r commented
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          I don't think the parasite cares where people are from.
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