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Neat News 2021-279 (added 2021-10-06)
Vaccination against malaria to start
© image by Ute Frevert; false color by Margaret Shear [CC BY2.5]
| Malaria causes more than 400,000 deaths a year, mostly children in Africa. Now the World Health Organization (WHO) has given the go ahead for a vaccination campaign. In pilots with more than 2.3 million doses, the vaccine showed a reduction of 30 percent in severe malaria. It is expected that many lives will be saved by the vaccination campaign. related: #malaria #vaccination |