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  if this works, it'll be a game changer for africa. they have around half a million malaria deaths each year. (mosquitos are surprisingly the most lethal animal on earth.)
context: The possibilities of mRNA technology makes me pretty excited for the future. This one, along with the flu vaccine and I'm sure others, is nice to see. In a weird positive way COVID opened the door for this as a real trial by fire. >
  
  People who understand vaccines understand that mRNA vaccines are a game changer. The possibilities and potential are just mind boggling, truly wish they could have been accepted as the miracle of science that they are. We are so fortunate to be alive during a period where medical technology is this advanced. >
  
  Between mRNA technology and Crispr, our children and grandchildren may never have to worry about cancer again. Or mental illness, epilepsy, Parkinson's. So many truly amazing possibilities. >
  
  Crispr is already being overtaken by base editing. >
  
  It's all about that base. >
  
  Does it belong to us? >
  
  All of them do. >
  
  Very exciting, and eager to see the results of the trial >
  
  If it works, this could be huge. >
  
  If it works, it is huge. >
  
  People get towns named after them for this. >
  
  Venezuela had eradicated Malaria, but Chavez/Maduro brought it back:
  “Between 1936 and 1970, Venezuela enacted one of the most important sanitary campaigns against malaria. It was led by Arnoldo Gabaldón, and its cornerstone was a national indoor residual spraying campaign with DDT that lasted for almost four decades. By 1961, malaria had been wiped out from 68% of the Venezuelan territory, and the mortality rate had been reduced from 164 deaths per 100 000 people in 1936 to zero in 1962. The partial elimination of the disease earned Venezuela an increase of over 400 000 km2 in its commercially exploitable territory, an area twice as large as the UK. This additional land proved fundamental for Venezuela's economic development during the second half of the 20th century.
  The current situation could not be more different: the 2020 World Malaria Report estimates that 467 421 cases of malaria occurred in Venezuela in 2019—a 1200% increase compared with the year 2000. Venezuela's incidence of 32·8 per 1000 people at risk is 8 times higher than that of neighbouring Brazil, and comparable to that of Ethiopia (34 cases per 1000 people at risk). Mortality figures are similarly striking. With 403 deaths in 2019, Venezuela accounted for 73% of the total deaths from malaria estimated on the continent.” >
  
  Im to young for this to have been relevant for me but didn't ddt have a ton of other negative side effects even if it was effective >
  
  For mammals it is not very toxic at all, I remember playing in clouds of DDT as the fumigation truck rolled by. It was practically a miracle chemical, before it 40% of Venezuela was for practical purposes off-limits due to malaria.  
  Unfortunately it is very very harmful for birds, to cite just one example. >
  
  They will be, just as they were with the Covid vaccines >
  
  “We had to move at the speed of science” >
  
  Because neither money or slow bureaucracy was an issue. If you have a magic pot full of money and basically the entire European government in your back, things move much faster than usual. Who would have thought?
  There was no other speed than the speed of science available, because everything else had been taken care off.
  The trials started somewhen in Mai? June? 2020. I was declined to participate due to health reasons. Anyway...
  Europe gave the green light for the vaccination on 21.12.2020
  Biontech published its result on a test with 43.448 people on the 10.12.2020
  Please do some research instead of spreading this bullshit. >
  
  Which alternative methods are you referring to? There was plenty of parallel research going on into effective treatments and that continued and continues to this day. They tried a number of treatments from antibodies, to anti-virals to a range of others to try to come up with an effective treatment. They now have medication available for at risk or early caught cases.
  And SADs as a term has been around quite a while. If I recall correctly at least 40 odd years. >
  
  Wait. Your suggestion is two treatments that were shown not to work in the end? That's not helping your point.