World's First Malaria Vaccination

The world’s first malaria vaccine is launching in sub-Saharan Africa. Children in Malawi will be the first recipients of the medicine, with more children in Ghana and Kenya to follow.

Finally a solution. Malaria is killer.

This is interesting. Malaria is neither a bacteria or a virus. Its a parasite. I didnt know you can vaccinate against parasitic organisms

Let’s wait and see

Malaria is a blood disease spread by parasites in infected mosquitoes. So no, malaria is not a parasite. This laziness of opining before you do the simplest of research seems endemic in Kenyans.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/150670.php

Interesting. Wikipedia clearly describes it as a parasitic disease
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria

So the question is: does the parasite itself spread a virus or bacteria or does it cause malaria by its activities in the body?

Also does the vaccine destroy the parasite itself when it invades…

You did not read all of it.

"[I]It is caused by single-celled microorganismsof the Plasmodium group.[2] The disease is most commonly spread by an infected female Anopheles mosquito.[2] The mosquito bite introduces the parasites from the mosquito’s saliva into a person’s blood.[2] The parasites travel to the liver where they mature and reproduce.[1]

"Malaria is typically diagnosed by the microscopic examination of blood using blood films, or with antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests.[1] Methods that use the polymerase chain reaction to detect the parasite’s DNA have been developed, but are not widely used in areas where malaria is common due to their cost and complexity.[5]”[/I]

@gashwin Unaonaje hii mambo.

haven’t had a chance to read up on it. will try to find time.

Ni kitambo sana nikipatwa na malaria. Almost 2 decades ago. Can someone develop immunity?

I wouldn’t touch that vaccine with a ten foot pole!
When and how were human tests carried out or are they just experimenting with Africans?
In the Americas malaria was conquered by spraying insecticide why cant we do the same?
Why should we be constantly seeking to reinvent the wheel?

Hehe… its possible that africans may be the guinea pigs. Wouldnt be the first time americans have done this to blacks. Reminds me of the Tuskergee experiment where black were deliberately infected with syphilis and studied over the course of decades:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_syphilis_experiment

Africans are now becoming human Guinea pigs. All they want to do is study the side effects of the vaccine on a large population.

I dont think its only spraying but the climate in America and most parts also are a factor of reduction

Dude you are the one who doesn’t get it. This clearly says that it is a parasitic disease. The mosquito bite introduces a parasite into the victim’s blood. Not a virus or bacteria

Population control plus future markets for big pharma…after all AIDS failed miserably

I assumed most people in this platform are educated. How can you start peddling romours of population control and other trivial stuff to sensitize the public against something that could help the community. Before you open your mouth and start reducing years and years of research to propaganda just google and learn a bit about their work.
Have you ever heard of scientific research?
Do have any idea how many stages and tests have to be done before being acreditted to test on human subjects??
Have you read about the incidence of Malaria in the United States?
Of course, malaria is a tropical disease hence it won’t make sense to test the vaccine in America where malaria is almost noon existent???

Soma hapa
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5938790/
In 1947, the National Malaria Eradication Program, a cooperation between the state and local health agencies of 13 southeastern states and the Communicable Disease Center of the US Public Health Service, commenced the operations that presumably resulted in the elimination of malaria from the United States ([I]14[/I]). The application of DDT and drainage of mosquito larval habitats were the main control methods used. By the early 1950s, after 3 years with no indigenous cases (based on eradication criteria stated by the National Malaria Society at the time), malaria was considered to be no longer endemic in any given area of the continental United States ([I]14[/I]).

This is a good thing. Malaria kills waay to many women and children. Infectious diseases in Africa are still the biggest killers. I welcome the move and will rally people to get the vaccination when it finally comes to Kenya.