Oh no! Vaccine for malaria approved!!

[Kingofalldems]

Anti-vaxxers in an uproar?

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[ornotna]

1. Not going to jab me with that unproven poison

100 years is far too quick to do proper testing.

[Bev54]

2. I doubt it, most of them have never had to take a malaria drug.

Hope the vaccine doesn't make one as sick as the medication did. Just a side note, 89% of Canadians with one vaccination and 82% fully vaccinated. The federal mandates are just now coming into effect with all federal employees and armed forces need to be vaccinated by Oct 29th. That I hope will bring us over 90%. I am ready to shut down some antivaxxers here.

[spinbaby]

3. Good

I’d far rather get vaccinated than take malaria prevention pills whenever I venture out of temperate zones.

[womanofthehills]

4. From article - you have to take preventive drugs with it

So probably still have to take pills - a combo thing.

[Gregory Peccary]

5. It's rather ironic that the MAGA hyped Hydroxychloroquine is used for Malaria

[beaglelover]

6. When I traveled to Zambia in 2006, we were told the #1 killer is Malaria and the average life

expectancy in Zambia was 35 at the time! 35!!!! At the little hotel we stayed at you could donate to the local health clinic. $200 dollars kept them supplied for a couple months. Was a very easy decision to make.

[OrangeJoe]

10. The real vaccine "conspiracy"

The fact that Big Pharma took so long to produce a malaria vaccine is the real conspiracy one should be upset about. Since malaria primarily affects poor black and brown people the big boys put development of a vaccine on the back burner and only made progress when NGOs and private philanthropy (Gates Foundation) kicked in some bucks to get the ball rolling.

Fools who see evil intent underlying the rapid development of the COVID vaccine clearly miss the fact that the roll-out was fast, BECAUSE COVID KILLED RICH WHITE PEOPLE and was affecting the economic system. If malaria was endemic in the global north do you think we would just now come up with a vaccine?

[ShazzieB]

7. "The quest for this vaccine has been underway for a hundred years, a WHO official said."

That's the part covid vaxholes will seize on, if they take any notice of this at all. After all, one of their chief complaints about the covid vaccines us that they were supposedly "rushed."

[Hortensis]

8. This miracle is such an enormous blessing for humanity,

and many, many others are coming.

Someday this era will be known as the beginning of a new age of medical advances, and the deranged reaction against the Covid vaccine a paragraph or page in most accountings.

"It is humbling for me and awe-inspiring to realize that we have caught the first glimpse of our own instruction book, previously known only to God. What a profound responsibility it is to do this work." Francis Collins at the White House in June 2000 announcing that a working draft of the human genome had finally been completed.

[Scrivener7]

9. That is a really big deal!

And just tell the anti-vaxxers that it is an off label use and the vaccine was created as a remedy for abomasal bloat in sheep.

[James48]

11. Summary- 50% efficacy against 1 of 6 types

That 50% efficacy fades to zero in four years; it requires 4 doses to reach the 50% level to begin with.

It’s a wonder drug, but there is so much farther to go.

“ Called Mosquirix, the new vaccine is given in three doses between ages 5 and 17 months, and a fourth dose roughly 18 months later. Following the clinical trials, the vaccine was tried out in three countries — Kenya, Malawi and Ghana — where it was incorporated into routine immunization programs.

More than 2.3 million doses have been administered in those countries, reaching more than 800,000 children. That bumped up the percentage of children protected against malaria in some way to more than 90 percent from less than 70 percent, Dr. Hamel said.”

[Pinback]

12. Yes, it's a good start. Meanwhile, insecticidal nets save a lot of lives.

The Against Malaria Foundation is doing great work in this area:
https://www.againstmalaria.com

[Blue Owl]

13. Malaria tRump?

[electric_blue68]

14. Some good news on this front...

I had a relative involved with among other things health care surrounding malaria - research, and history.

He would have been pleased to hear this.