One Step Closer to a Malaria Vaccine
Malaria attacks and kills a child under the age of five every two minutes and for decades has been without a cure or a vaccine. Recently, researches restudied the R21 vaccine that has been in development in the UK and discovered that when used in a specific time period, is 77% effective at stopping malaria. This is providing a lot of hope as it is the first malaria vaccine to cross the 75% effectiveness line. Just in 2019 alone, 229 million cases of malaria killed about 405k of those infected. It is an extremely complex disease with over 140 vaccines in trial. However, this vaccine was not permitted yet as it must go through more trials and approvals to confirm it safe for use. This is a really good leap in the development for an extremely dangerous disease as the WHO wanted this by 2030. The more people step in and work together to develop a vaccine as they did for Covid-19, the quicker new medical innovations will be created for diseases like malaria. Article
I think that this article and the trial itself are indeed good for not only our country's government but the world's ecosystem too. If the kids do win the trial, the government (and trump) will be disrupted into having to participate by helping save our ecosystem and deal with the problem of climate change. It will also be helpful on quite a larger scale considering that if a first world country like the USA were to start paying more attention to our environmental issues and help to retain a healthy ecosystem, the world would be much better off.
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