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I'll be interested to see how this compares to Malaria vaccine, R21, which was recently announced to be highly effective[0]. It seems like R21 is similarly effe

• vanderZwan 5y ago
  That vaccine is mentioned in the article: > The vaccination protected 87.5% of participants who were infected after three months with the same strain of parasite that was used in the inoculation, and 77.8% of those who were infected with a different strain. This is a significant improvement on earlier efforts to use live parasites in a malaria vaccine, which did not perform as well against different strains. > Another vaccine, called R21, was recently shown to be up to 77% effective in a trial of 450 young children, and a larger study is under way. I assume we can't rally make direct comparisons between the two based on these very different studies, but both appear to be working really well.
• tim333 5y ago
  There's also the "Yale lab develops revolutionary RNA vaccine for malaria" vaccine using "self-amplifying RNA, or saRNA" which looks interesting although it's in earlier stages testing wise. https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/03/12/yale-lab-develops-revolutionary-rna-vaccine-for-malaria/ https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2021/03/12/yale-lab-develops-...