The world’s first malaria vaccine
THE World Health Organization (WHO) recently announced a vaccine had been approved to protect children in Africa against malaria. The RTS,S vaccine, also known as Mosquirix, was developed by British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline and will help to prevent the devastating parasitic disease that invades the body and destroys blood cells.
Scientists have been working on the development of a malaria vaccine for more than 100 years and this jab is a major development in the fight against malaria. It is the first vaccine of its kind and in its current form prevents malaria in
