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WHO Announces 2nd Malaria Vaccine Recommendation

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Called R21/Matrix-M, the vaccine is given as three doses to children up to the age of 3, followed by a booster one year later. A trial has shown that this immunisation course reduces cases of malaria by 75 per cent if given just before the rainy season. Malaria causes more than half a million deaths a year, mostly in young children in sub-Saharan Africa.

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WHO Announces 2nd Malaria Vaccine Recommendation

The World Health Organization on Monday announced the recommendation of a second malaria vaccine, with the aim of giving countries a cheaper and more rea

2 months ago·United States

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FijiTimes

WHO recommends malaria vaccine that will be rolled out next year

GENEVA (Reuters) -The World Health Organization (WHO) recommended on Monday the use of a second malaria vaccine to curb the life-threatening disease spread to humans by some mosquitoes. “Almost exactly two years ago, WHO recommended the broad use of the world’s first malaria vaccine called RTS,S,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a briefing in Geneva. “Today, it gives me great pleasure to announce that WHO is recommending a second vacci…

2 months ago·Fiji

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Malawi 24

WHO recommends new Malaria vaccine Malawi 24 | Latest News from Malawi

The World Health Organization (WHO) has recommended a new vaccine, R21/Matrix-M, for widescale use in the prevention of malaria in children in various countries including in Malawi. The vaccine which is cheap and can be produced on a massive scale, has been developed by the University of Oxford. The recommendation follows advice from the WHO: […] The post WHO recommends new Malaria vaccine appeared first on Malawi 24.

2 months ago·Malawi

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NewScientist

Cheaper malaria vaccine recommended by the WHO

A second vaccine against the mosquito-borne disease should be available from next year, adding to the first that was launched in 2019

2 months ago·Baltimore, United States

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oantagonista.com.br

WHO recommends vaccine snubbed by Lula

The World Health Organization, WHO, started to recommend the dengue vaccine developed by the Japanese pharmaceutical company Takeda, known as Qdenga. The immunizer was approved by Anvisa in March of this year for people aged 4 to 60 years... The post WHO recommends vaccine snubbed by Lula appeared first on The Antagonist.

2 months ago·São Paulo, Brazil

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WhoWhatWhy

WHO Recommends Cheaper Malaria Vaccine That Could Save Millions

In a major breakthrough in the fight against malaria, the World Health Organization (WHO) on Monday recommended a new vaccine for the prevention of the mosquito-borne illness in children. Malaria kills hundreds of thousands of people each year, most of them young children. The vaccine, called R21, was developed by researchers at the University of Oxford. It is only the second malaria vaccine WHO has recommended for use. What could make it a real…

2 months ago

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