Vaccine for Malaria?

Apr 23rd 2021

From The Guardian Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

Scientists at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University, where the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid vaccine was also invented, have developed a Malaria vaccine, which shows 77% efficacy in a trial of 450 children.

Malaria kills about 400,000 people a year, including about 270,000 children, and infects millions more. The WHO estimates that in 2018 there were more than 200,000,000 new cases, which caused lost work days, lost days for education, and costs for health care. The economic impact is estimated to be $12,000,000,000 (that is $12 billion) per year for Africa, where the majority of cases occur.

A vaccine for this devastating disease would be a huge achievement, and would save lives and help lift people and whole countries out of poverty.

Larger trials will be conducted in the near future, we will just have to hope that this vaccine works well in them as well.