The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered

Post by ff-- » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 9:59 PM UTC

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> Malaria deaths peaked around 930,000 a year in 2004, and is around 600,000 a year now Your link does a good job showing this, but for those who don't click and scroll down it's probably worth mentioning that the vast majority of those deaths are in central Africa. So it's not just a lot of deaths, but it's a really significant portion of the population and, as you said, mostly children.

I grew up in Africa. We weren't as scared of Ebola, as we were, of good old Malaria. It's also the gift that keeps on giving. Once you get it, it does a reunion tour, every now and then, for the rest of your life. At the dinner table, we (expats) used to have a bowl of quinine tablets, set out like a condiment. I really hope this works out, because, thanks to climate change, the lower 48 may get a chance to find some…

Post by oblio » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:01 PM UTC

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Except for the age difference of the victims, those numbers actually make covid seem pretty bad. Covid has hardly been around for a year and is killing 7x as many people a year.

> Except for the age difference of the victims Right. Let's all just ignore that the majority of those killed by covid are around the average age of life expectancy, so that we can try and make the unprecedentedly panicked, massively-damaging and downright stupid multi-trillion dollar response to covid appear slightly less irrational and racist. Starving kills 9 million/year. They're mainly children of colour too, bu…

Post by yyyk » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:02 PM UTC

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There's a lot of debate in the field as to whether or not it's actually possible to eradicate malaria. Partially because mosquito eradication programs failed in the core "malaria belt" even with substantial international investment. There is work on this though, primarily around introducing genetically modified mosquitos.

Well, the attempt in Brazil did not go as planned: https://www.dw.com/en/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-breed-... "The hope of the Ministry of Health was to reduce mosquito populations by 90 percent. And this worked well during the field trial. About 18 months after the end of the experiment, the mosquito population returned to what it had been before."

Post by yorwba » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:13 PM UTC

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What blows me away is in a study group of 734 infants, which benefited from maternal antibodies against malaria, 717 were infected by malaria in the first year of their life. That's nearly 100%, in the first year since birth. That's devastating. The vaccine is showing 77% efficacy in trials in Burkina Faso. That's an ongoing pandemic that makes covid-19 look like a case of the sniffles. Malaria deaths peaked around 9…

There is an extremely effective treatment. Millions have perished from being denied it. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB113236412756302115

Post by nanijoe » Fri, Apr 23, 2021, 10:23 PM UTC

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I dont know what part of Africa you grew up in, but growing up in Nigeria, no one was scared of Malaria. It is treated pretty much the same way Americans treat getting the Flu

I was born in Nigeria. I barely remember it, but what I can remember, is being constantly told how bad it was. It's entirely possible that my parents had an unreasoning fear of it. When we are kids, they are our source of Truth. I also remember my sister getting caught in one of those 'squito swarms, near the Delta. That was freaking awful. Uganda was a bit worse; but we also had other things to be scared of. I shoul…