Malaria Vaccine Starts In Africa
By Roperfree According the World Health Organization Malawi has been the first country to begin immunizing children against malaria on April 23, 2019, good news to celebrate on World Malaria Day which takes place on every 25 of April each year using the only licensed vaccine to protect against the mosquito-spread disease. The vaccine, known as Mosquirix, was developed by GlaxoSmithKline and was approved by the European Medicines Agency in 2015. A previous trial showed the vaccine was about 30 per cent effective in children who got four doses, but that protection waned over time. Reported side-effects include pain, fever and convulsions. Although the vaccine only protects about one-third of children who are immunized, those who get the shots are likely to have less severe cases of malaria. The parasitic disease kills about 435,000 people every year, the majority of them children under five in Africa. On the other hand, sometimes it is hard to under...