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World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO (bbc.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The world's first vaccine against malaria will be introduced in three countries -- Ghana, Kenya and Malawi -- starting in 2018. The RTS,S vaccine trains the immune system to attack the malaria parasite, which is spread by mosquito bites. The World Health Organization (WHO) said the jab had the potential to save tens of thousands of lives. But it is not yet clear if it will be feasible to use in the poorest parts of the world. The vaccine needs to be given four times -- once a month for three months and then a fourth dose 18 months later.
- Michael Cohen
"World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO "
Well aren't they going to answer that question?
"That's the way to do it" - Punch
What's the name of the guy that answers that question.
I don't know!
Sphincter says what?
Sean Spicer.
Oh, sorry. "First base!"
"World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO "
Well aren't they going to answer that question?
Betteridge's law suggests the answer would be "no one".
Come on. we all know how this is going to go. The "leaders" of these countries will protest and stop the vaccinations, claiming they are an American plot to harm the poor African children. Somehow they will enrich themselves over this but still few if any will be vaccinated. A few volunteer aid workers will be killed. Billions in U.S aid will flow to the countries, but the common people will not get it.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
It's like Jeopardy, you have to say the answer in the form of a question.
Third base.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Funny, it appears that decent life-expectancy and quality of life seems to go a long way toward fighting birthrate.
Perhaps if people don't expect their children to die young they don't feel a need to have so many of them.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Considering what you people did to us, you deserve it. I'm glad about the many rapes of white women by Africans and Muslims that you read about every single day.
Wow... you must be Malawian. That's some wishful thinking calling it a "great big welfare state."
Do we call the US a great big welfare state when someone in New York tosses change in a panhandler's cup? Has about as much to do with the US government as social programs in Malawi, being funded with donor money and all. And indeed, it's fairly well accepted that fecundity drops when GDP rises and/or child mortality drops- maybe if they didn't suffer from endemic malaria, they wouldn't produce "so many babies." It certainly wouldn't hurt if their per capita GDP could break $1k.
I laugh out loud at every white woman I hear about that was raped. White people did far worse to us for centuries.
Hey, just because "cuck" has become the go-to insult for the newly-empowered right wing doesn't mean they masturbate to similar porn every single day.
Who's in first https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gee whiz!
Uh-huh. What has Lucas done for anyone but Lucas?
This. Just simple revenge.
But even if only foreigner and rich citizens get vaccinated :
- By being vaccinated, there's a bit less risk that they (or more correctly: their mosquitoes) will transmit malaria to somebody else.
(Which would other wise would happen in the time frame between the parasite entering the body and the disease being cured by antimalaric drugs).
It won't be enough to develop herd immunity (see children viruses in developed world - at least until anti-vaxxer started messing around), but it's a tiny bit help in reducing propagation (see influenza virus in the developed world) - even if only a drop in the bucket.
- Also prevention based on vaccination of travelling foreigner, is a lot less likely than the current prevention (dosing traveller with anti-malaric drug in advance) to overload the environment with drug to the point that the parasite has pressure to mutate and develop resistance.
And this has very important long-term ecological benefits. (Less risks of drugs stopping to work eventually)
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It's like Jeopardy, you have to say the answer in the form of a question.
You must phrase your response in the form a question.
The clue is the answer.
you want save starving people because it makes you feel good. You are not bright enough to see that when the population explodes you now have a LOT more human suffering than you did before you "saved them."
here's a good line of bs "it's fairly well accepted that fecundity drops when GDP rises and/or child mortality drops"
*citation needed thats for sure.
I call BS. Find one African population that stopped exploding after the GDP rose or child mortality dropped.
Just one.
I challenge you to find just find a _single_ time where that happened in africa.
Do I call the US a welfare state? No. Because it is not. Welfare states are basically in Africa.
You have the typical problem of stupidly insisting that we are all the same while evidence to the contrary piles up around you like mountains.
Care to cite that this is why the unwashed masses of third world countries have such high birthrates?
My guess is that it's disinformation and lack of education but I'm willing to read something that says that people are doing this because they're afraid of their lineage coming to an end. And I'm saying this as someone who's looking at the end of a bloodline in his own family.
Shame you were not thinned from the herd.
A lot of ignorant people say this (from their cushy first world armchairs) but it is a lot easier for people to improve their countries when they're not sick all the time.
My understanding is that malaria is mostly life-threatening in remote parts of Africa that don't have a resident doctor or access to quinine. It seems improbable these remote areas will have access to this vaccine if they don't have access to quinine. I imagine the vaccine needs refrigeration, which may not be available. Requiring 3 jabs a month apart and a 4th 18 months later means a traveling doctor/missionary won't be able to come through the village once and successfully vaccinate people.
I'm aware there is a strain of malaria that is becoming increasingly common, that is deadlier and resistant to quinine, maybe that's what the vaccine will be most effective in preventing.
Corruption is convincing someone that the selfless ideal is the same as their selfish ideal.
Then we'll have a bunch of weaponized autists to help map the problems at a molecular level and fix the NEXT vaccine.
Self-correcting problem.
I asked about second, you clod!
Black people have more kids than white people.
There I said it. Was that so fucking hard.
You are an idiot if you think there's an "us". If you're being robbed in Africa, go bring up that fact there's an "us". Also in urban gang conflicts. Do also notice that the majority of violent black deaths are perpetuated by blacks. Go "us" team, yea!
I hope you can see your taxes increasing to pay for the food for all these people that are now surviving in countries with failed economies and rampant starvation. We need them to be alive instead of fixing our own social problems because ... why?
When ya aint got shit. I accept your forfeit.
I always think of Douglas Adams calling the mosquito "Nature's Viet Cong" for making it much more expensive to cut down all the rain forests. I hope the laudable goal of saving people doesn't have the negative side effect of accelerated jungle destruction.
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Yeah those well known oppressive white women...
Assuming you're actually glad about it rather than being a troll you really need to reevaluate your hatred. No one regardless of what their ancestors may have done to your ancestors deserved to be raped. Not all white people were slave owners just like not all black people were slaves.
Missing from the summary (and of possible intereste here), it seems that some of the funding was by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
http://www.afro.who.int/en/med...
Not "Who", just "The Doctor".
Not only is he a troll, he is also most probably white.
One day what is a "jungle" disease ends up finding it's way to the first world. Perhaps you missed that whole Zika outbreak in the southern US?
It's only a matter of when, not if many of these tropical diseases make it to the first world. The warming of the planet will only help this along, causing the tropical areas where mosquito borne illness can survive to move much further from the equator.
So yes, I'd rather see my taxes increase to help rid the world of diseases that can kill us all.
Here's a hint, malaria doesn't care if you are rich or poor,..
this is slashdot. and everybody knows it. lol
WHO? Ronnie Pickering!
what if it causes autism?
We had malaria on the ropes and nearly wiped out. Then the propaganda piece "Silent Spring" with a bunch of bad science, bad data, outright lies, and heartstring-plucking was published and picked up by environmental groups who screamed at the government to "do something!", and so they did. They worked to ban the use of DDT as widely as possible and gave malaria a reprieve. The DDT ban was based on lies and those lies and the ones who knowingly used those lies in their political/ideological causes anyway are responsible for all the deaths, suffering, and economic losses from malaria since then.
Strat
Progressivism (aka US 'Liberalism'): Ideas so good they need a police/surveillance-state to enforce.
Deluded RWNJ Blue Strat is lying and blustering again, what a useless dumb cunt.
... Blue Strat is lying and blustering again ...
Blue Strat is dead-on correct on this one.
Bantam Dominique roosters crow a four-note song. Once you've heard it as "Happy BIRTHday" you can't NOT hear it that way
Hey dumb fuck, you should learn some history. Malaria used to be prevalent in the United States until it was wiped out with White Person Know-How and perseverence. If the lazy African njiggers can't be bothered to do the same then this vaccine will help them.
Who said the jab has what now?
BlueStrat's lying.
DDT is not banned at all in most of the African countries where Malaria is endemic. The few that have bans only cover widespread area spraying for which DDT is ineffective anyway. It is still allowed for residual indoor spraying.
But mosquitoes have developed a resistance to DDT anyway, making the use of it moot.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane
Facts, even BlueStrat's not entitled to his own.
Level of female education is the strongest predictor of birth rate. But educational attainment in general is limited by conditions of extreme poverty.
BlueStrat's usual truth deficient screed. Not only is the documented problems with DDT a legitimate reason to regulate its use, it was becoming ineffective against mosquitoes anyway, and the lack of effective elimination is because those tropical areas where mosquitoes have a year round cycle are not suited to vector control.
Beyond that, the ban on DDT applied only in countries that wanted to ban it, not the ones where Malaria is a problem.
Too bad that everything in REALITY indicates the exact opposite of your claim. The observed way to stabilize population is: Create a stable society, with jobs, and education, and gender equality, and a social safety net.
Or do you think it's a coincidence that the whole developed world has flat-to-negative population growth?
I used to do R&D on insecticides. Blue Strat is completely full of crap. DDT was banned for use as an insecticide in agricultural use in the USA and in many other countries, as it should have been given its propensity for bioaccumulation and broad target spectrum. DDT continues to be used for combating mosquitoes that are malarial vectors and vectors for other diseases. However the only locations that successfully used DDT to eradicate malaria were wealthy, had well-developed public health programs, and had only seasonal malarial outbreaks or lower rates of malaria. Mosquito resistance to DDT was noted back in the 50's and today is a significant problem, unsurprising since mosquitoes have enormous populations that can go through over 40 generations in a year providing ample opportunity for the evolution of resistance. The need for rationally designed insecticides specific to mosquito species of interest is dire but funding simply is not there...and about to get worse if Trump and the Republicans cut even more funding from the already resource-starved NIH and USDA.
I DON'T KNOW!
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Now also explain and make available effective contraception, or each person saved will spawn a few more to die from hunger and war two decades down the road. Messing with natural population control mechanisms is dangerous and tricky. Not saying it should not be done, but it needs to be done right or catastrophes will ensue.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
Reality that apparently you can't cite. Actual REALITY is something that makes you uncomfortable.
Do you think it's a coincidence that the whole developed world is non-african?
and why is that? ( I'm sure you'll find a way to blame yourself )
"except" should be "accept"
We don't need it, there are too many Africans already and according to the UN its population will double by 2030 and quadruple by 2100.