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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
what if it causes autism?
"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
Now the populations of those third world countries can really explode. Great big giant welfare states that produce nothing but babies.
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.
Yeah, definitely need a shitload more Africans to overrun Europe.
Third base.
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
Who's in first https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Gee whiz!
Uh-huh. What has Lucas done for anyone but Lucas?
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.
Fuck.
Shame you were not thinned from the herd.
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.
I asked about second, you clod!
Black people have more kids than white people.
There I said it. Was that so fucking hard.
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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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".
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!
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?
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.
"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.