A baby can get it while inside its mother. License: All of Our World in Data is completely open access and all work is licensed under the Creative Commons BY license. GDP in Chad, all of which could be regained following how many die from malaria every year of malaria. Are We on Track to… Read More: How many die from malaria every year »
Health authorities in Kenya on Friday started administering doses of the world’s only licensed malaria vaccine to young children in rural areas facing high transmission rates. Kenya became the third African country to introduce the vaccine, after Malawi and Ghana. The aim is to reach about 360,000 children per year across the three countries. The… Read More: Kenya becomes 3rd country to roll out malaria vaccine »
Malaria parasites resistant to several drugs are spreading rapidly in South East Asia, scientists have warned. A new report in The Lancet Infectious Diseases examined samples collected from patients with malaria from Cambodia, Laos, north-eastern Thailand and Vietnam, between 2007 and 2018. From 1,673 whole genome sequences, researchers found the new resistant type of parasite… Read More: Malaria parasites that are resistant to drugs ‘spreading rapidly in… »
Researchers at the Institute for Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago have developed an innovative new system for delivering a malaria vaccine that shows promise in its effectiveness. By developing a vaccine that targets specific cells in the immune system, they have seen a much greater immune and antibody response to the vaccine. Though a vaccine for malaria… Read More: New vaccine for malaria developed at IME could be more… »