The vaccine has been approved for use in children aged 5-36 months theSun theSundaily vaccines malaria WHO disease healthcare
This 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention photo shows two “Anopheles gambiae” mosquitoes, the principal vector of malaria in Africa, as the female is in the process of egg-laying atop a sheet of egg paper pictured with the male /REUTERSPix: A malaria vaccine developed by Britain’s Oxford University is to be used in Ghana, the first time it has received regulatory clearance anywhere in the world.
“It is hoped that this first crucial step will enable the vaccine to help Ghanaian and African children to effectively combat malaria,“ it added. Last September, Oxford announced that a booster dose of the new malaria vaccine maintained a high level of protection against the disease, expressing hopes that the inexpensive injection could be produced on a large scale in a matter of years.
Last year, a different vaccine produced by British pharmaceutical giant GSK became the first to be recommended for widespread use against malaria by the World Health Organization, and has now been administered to more than a million children in Africa.
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