Posted on 10/06/2021 3:07:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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.
"This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria control," Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO's director-general, said in a statement Wednesday (Oct. 6). "Using this vaccine on top of existing tools to prevent malaria could save tens of thousands of young lives each year."
In large-scale clinical trials, the vaccine, developed by U.K. healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline, prevented around 4 in 10 cases of malaria — a 39% efficacy — across a period of four years,
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My trust of the medical establishment remains at zero
I don’t know.
So, Malaria has been around thousands of year at pandemic proportions, and the world hasn’t been panicked into wearing full-body protective suits?
Where has Fauxi been this whole time?
A “vaccine” that bats .400
Has MLB potential anyway, but still not a vaccine. Well maybe it is by the new definition they made up...
DDT, world.
Wake-up.
Screw the “Silent Spring” BS.
How long before they mandate that any kids in the U.S. who live near puddles must get it?
Yes. The ban on DDT was one of the cruelest and most expensive (in human lives) acts of malice committed by the “well meaning” Left.
The problem with DDT was the way it was used, not with DDT itself. It was the pesticide equivalent of Penicillin, and was used to such a great extent that it caused a very few issues that the Left latched onto and we got “Silent Spring” as their bible.
My buddy and I drive by a Rachel Carson Wildlife area in Maine, and when we go by, he says “Hand Salute!” and...we do.
“Two!”
Down comes the hand. Or at least the middle finger.
It’s taken THIRTY YEARS to develop this. And we’re to believe the stab is good after 10 months of rush trials.
This crisis began when DDT was outlawed world wide.
hmm another vaccine instead of hydroxychloroquine...must be a coincidence
Let me guess...mRNA
Let me guess...mRNA
mRNA: might Really Need Another shot.
Cut it with the damn vaccines. These ghouls need to be exterminated like the vermin they are.
After the CCP virus fiasco, I wouldn’t trust any national or worldwide health organization to tie my shoes. NOT taking it, EVER!!!!!!
By the way, Hydroxychloroquine is THE preferred medication for dealing with malaria. It is also a powerful preventative, something that we gave to our troops in Vietnam once every 3 weeks (the half-life is about 20 days), with very good results. Cost is minimal.
NOT taking it, EVER!
It worked, they killed it, and many millions have paid the ultimate price for their stupidity.
Unfortunately the DDT myth has become instilled in the public.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2007/05/rachel_carson_and_the_deaths_o.html
Yes, it has, and it’ll never be used again. Too effective and too cheap for Big Chemical and Big Pharma. They want billion dollar “vaccines”, which don’t work.
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