Excellent news God can go back to killing more people than mosquitos!

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AtW replied

23 April 2021, 11:20
Originally posted by vetran View Post

Its a turning point for Malaria 77% efficiency in initial trials.

It's not done until it's done - lots of promising vaccine candidates passed phase 2 for all sort of illnesses, but failed at stage 3.

They really should be keeping intermediate private until stage 3 results are confirmed and vaccine is approved: early results can have chilling effect on other people's work in the same field, reduce investment (delay their own trials) until they wait what happens with this one, which is probably the main commercial intention of this early disclosure.
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vetran replied

23 April 2021, 11:17
Originally posted by AtW View Post

It's not finished trials yet, hopefully it will work and maybe mRNA ones will address that market too

Its a turning point for Malaria 77% efficiency in initial trials.
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mattster replied

23 April 2021, 11:09
Originally posted by vetran View Post

seriously no one? This disease killed 4 times as many people as Covid last year and has done that since the first mosquito.

The main victims were little kids.

This really is stupendous news.

It is indeed great news!
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AtW replied

23 April 2021, 11:07
It's not finished trials yet, hopefully it will work and maybe mRNA ones will address that market too
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vetran replied

23 April 2021, 10:58
seriously no one? This disease killed 4 times as many people as Covid last year and has done that since the first mosquito.

The main victims were little kids.

This really is stupendous news.
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vetran started a topic Excellent news God can go back to killing more people than mosquitos!

23 April 2021, 09:47
Excellent news God can go back to killing more people than mosquitos!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ina-faso-trial

A vaccine against malaria has been shown to be highly effective in trials in Africa, holding out the real possibility of slashing the death toll of a disease that kills 400,000 mostly small children every year.

The vaccine, developed by scientists at the Jenner Institute of Oxford University, showed up to 77% efficacy in a trial of 450 children in Burkina Faso over 12 months.

The hunt for a malaria vaccine has been going on the best part of a century. One, the Mosquirix vaccine developed by GlaxoSmithKline, has been through lengthy clinical trials but is only partially effective, preventing 39% of malaria cases and 29% of severe malaria cases among small children in Africa over four years. It is being piloted by the World Health Organization in parts of Kenya, Ghana and Malawi.

The Oxford vaccine is the first to meet the WHO goal of 75% efficacy against the mosquito-borne parasite disease. Larger trials are now beginning, involving 4,800 children in four countries.

well done girls and guys!
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