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Jab by jab, house by house, Nigeria slowly rolls out malaria vaccine
About 1.8 million doses have been given and nearly a quarter-million children fully vaccinated, with some Bayelsa villages reporting zero child malaria deaths.
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Jab by jab, house by house, Nigeria slowly rolls out malaria vaccine
Expectations were high when the world's first malaria vaccines arrived in Africa's most populous country in late 2024, promising to limit the devastation from the mosquito-borne disease that killed nearly 200,000 Nigerians and some 600,000 people worldwide that year. Progress has been slow -- but on the local level, some villages have seen child deaths drop off completely, with almost a quarter-million children fully vaccinated and 1.8 million …
·Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
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In the state of Bayelsa, families find that the malaria vaccine protects their children and that some villages are no longer mourning death... Read more In Nigeria, the malaria vaccine reduces the deaths of children appeared first on Le Singulier.
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