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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.
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"World's First Vaccine Against Malaria To Arrive Next Year, Says WHO "
Well aren't they going to answer that question?
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I don't know!
"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.
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Third base.
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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.
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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.
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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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You must phrase your response in the form a question.
The clue is the answer.
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.
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I asked about second, you clod!
Do your own homework.
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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.
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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.
... Blue Strat is lying and blustering again ...
Blue Strat is dead-on correct on this one.
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Level of female education is the strongest predictor of birth rate. But educational attainment in general is limited by conditions of extreme poverty.
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!
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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.
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