“The World Health Organization is recommending widespread use of the RTS,S/AS01 (RTS,S) malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa,” the UN-backed health watchdog said in a press release on Wednesday. “This is a historic moment. The long-awaited malaria vaccine for children is a breakthrough for science, child health and malaria …
Read More »New malaria vaccine shows 77% efficacy in trial, becoming first to surpass WHO target
The results of second-phase trials of the vaccine, known as R21 / Matrix-M and developed by the University of Oxford in cooperation with pharmaceutical giant Novax, were published in Preprints with The Lancet earlier this week. The researchers claim that the immunization has proven effective in a trial that involved …
Read More »Ukraine reported a new case of malaria
Malaria is an infectious disease transmitted to humans by the bite of the so-called “malarial mosquitoes”.“During the reporting week was an extraordinary message about imported malaria from a resident of Kirovohrad region, citizen of the Republic of Cameroon”, – reported in the Ministry of health. Recall that a week earlier …
Read More »Scientists learned the causes of malaria
Scientists came to the conclusion that in the region of Saba, located in South-East Asia, malaria occurs 2.5 times more often than in other regions. This is stated in the report of the British medical school of hygiene and tropical medicine. The article was published in the journal the Lancet. …
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