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'We could eradicate malaria by 2040’ says expert after revolutionary vaccine is approved by WHO (theconversation.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Bebo@literature.cafe to c/science

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People have been trying to make malaria vaccines for over 100 years. Well over 100 vaccines have gone into clinical trials in people. Very, very few have worked to any degree.

Malaria is not a virus, it’s not a bacterium. It’s a protozoan parasite, some thousands of times larger than a typical virus. A good measure of that is how many genes it has. Covid has 13, malaria has about 5,500. This is one of the reasons that malaria is super complex.

With the help of the revolutionary new R21/Matrix vaccine the disease could be eradicated by 2040 (as claimed).

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[–] Uranium3006@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope so

[–] SugarApplePie 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By the time 2040 rolls around we're gonna need some good news like this!

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

wont be much life left on Earth by then I reckon

[–] Spzi@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Let's just hope no one has to wear a piece of cloth for it to work, or even get the vaccine.

We thought we had eradicated polio, but the anti-vaxxers had other plans.

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately, the US ruined the faith many countries have in vaccination missions because we just had to kill a renal patient, that we trained and funded, who "went off the reservation."