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Wow I thought there already was a Malaria vaccine and that that was what the Gates foundation had been deploying to eradicate the disease, but they've only so f
by vehementi 3y ago
Wow I thought there already was a Malaria vaccine and that that was what the Gates foundation had been deploying to eradicate the disease, but they've only so far been able to (go to great lengths to) mess with mosquitos, protect people from symptoms, remove people from conditions, etc. to otherwise prevent it by conventional means. A vaccine is huge!
- crossroadsguy 3y agoIt is indeed huge. It might be coming as a shock that there was no vaccine for this, but it would make sense if you look at the demographics and geography that gets affected by malaria, dengue. And that truly makes it huge. Hope this is accessible as well. Now I hope my country gets an approved dengue vaccine. I had it once, won’t wish to my enemies. I’d rather take covid any day.
- Fomite 3y agoBeyond demographics and geography, malaria is just hard. It's not a virus with fairly stable antigenic targets - it's a parasite that readily develops resistance to things. This is indeed huge, even if the effect is only modest on a per-person basis, because we're still talking about a tremendous number of the world's population being protected.