The most effective malaria vaccine yet discovered
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.<p>The vaccine is showing 77% efficacy in trials in Burkina Faso.<p>That's an ongoing pandemic that makes covid-19 look like a case of the sniffles. Malaria deaths peaked around 930,000 a year in 2004, and is around 600,000 a year now. I believe covid-19 death toll stands around 3 million deaths, most above the age of 70. Malaria is over 100 million, most under the age of 5.<p>Source: <a href="https://ourworldindata.org/malaria" rel="nofollow">https://ourworldindata.org/malaria</a>