If we could pick our heads up for a moment and look across the sea, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of all time has recently been announced. To me, this is the greatest news I could have woken up to read. 500,000 children PER YEAR die in Africa of this disease, and now we have a fighting chance to eradicate it. That’s every bit as bad as COVID, every single year. We shut our country down to try to fight a disease of that magnitude.
This community is rightly concerned about people of color- well, show me a more important news story to people of color around the world than this one right here. Imagine if COVID went on unchecked for a century, and we suddenly found a vaccine. Honestly, I can only imagine because I am very fortunate to live in a country that is largely free of malaria. (Yeah, we sprayed super toxic DDT all over the south to get to this point: en.wikipedia.org/...)
Anyhow, here’s a hearty congratulations to science and these scientists in particular who never gave up on finding a solution.
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London (CNN)A vaccine against malaria has shown record efficacy in a Phase II trial, a pre-print study released on Friday by Oxford University shows, raising hopes that one of the world's most deadly diseases could be brought under control.
The vaccine, developed by Oxford and known as R21, showed up to 77% efficacy in a trial of 450 children in Burkina Faso over 12 months, the university said in a statement. It said the shot was the first to meet the World Health Organization's Malaria Vaccine Technology Roadmap goal of a malaria vaccine with at least 75% efficacy.